" Chad [...] The Sudan [...] Algeria and Libya [...] Ethiopia [...] All of them drawing venom from the lethal inheritance of the last century, a staggering tonnage of
outdated armaments passed from government to government at knock-down prices. From America to Pakistan to mujahedeen to a Somalian splinter group with
nothing to recommend it but a holy desperation for martyrdom...From Russia to a cadre of bug-eyed Marxists strongmen shooting anything that even looked like a bourgeois intellectual...Billions in aid had been poured into the sub-Sahara, permanently warping governments into bizarre funnels of debt and greed, and as the situation worsened more and more arms were necessary for "order" and "stability" and "national security", the outside world heaved a cynical sigh of relief as its lethal junk was disposed of to people still desperate to kill each other... "

― Bruce Sterling , Islands in the Net