I think they'll go straight to martial law with the US as permanent police presence. All the bad-ass warlords will be bought off with the stolen oil profits and in 25 years they will be broke, sick, decimated and more pissed off than ever.
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No matter how powerful our political and religious leaders think they are, they are as dust before the immense and implacable forces of history and progress.
Alan Moore [in Salon]
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