Actually, if you had told people on 9/12/01 that within the next 6 years the U.S. would lose 3,000+ troops in a war whose only purpose was to establish and prop up a dysfunctional government in Iraq -- under which Islam is enshrined as the official state religion, mind you -- I bet no more than a handful of them ever would have believed you.
This place is being overrun by wackjobs.
Come now...Oil, it is about oil...
Thats gonna leave a mark