I seem to recall reading some novel way back in high school about a global caliphate after the 1973 Yom Kippur War, where the energy crisis gripped America so bad, the Arabs just came right in and took things over. I’ve tried to look for it on the net here, to no avail.
Now I saw the ad for this novel and, I was intrigued, especially it being a post-9/11 setting and then some. But will we really see this type of setting where the pieces change, but the game remains the same? Or will there still be a likelihood that the Three Conjectures will come to pass?
God only knows.