When the present campaign against al-Qaeda and the small groups in Asia loosely associated with it concludes, what happens next? No organization has been identified as the next target, and until that happens one suspects that the perennial inclination for different states to distinguish groups according to the ends sought rather than the means used may reappear. Kashmir and Palestine are the two most important active scenes for terrorist activity. In Kashmir, Islamic insurgents are seriously dividing two important members of the coalition. India considers them terrorists, bur Pakistan does not. War between those states, borh possessing nuclear weapons, will push the coalition’s was against terror aside. Successful outside mediation may produce a similar result because that would require some acceptance of the