But I think Central_va is correct, I just do not see a Bosnia happening here. I also do not understand where all this talk of CW2 is coming from, WTF, we have 2010 and 2012 to set things right. Now if the Rats try something funny like no elections or rigged elections well that would change things, but I still couldn't see a CW2. I could see a battle between all of the states and the federal government and the feds would lose in short order since the military would side with all of the states. A far more likely scenario is a conservative takeover of government in 2010 and 2012 fueling a left wing guerrilla uprising.
Read “Seasons In Hell” about Bosnia. One thing you hear over and over is the shock of people who truly believed to their core “it couldn’t happen here.” Remember, this was only a few years after Sarajevo hosted the Olympics! Bosnians thought themselves to be very cosmopolitan and “beyond” that kind of strife potential. They were wrong.
And their different ethnic/religious enclaves embedded within each other and all tangled like noodles made the creation of front lines a very horribly bloody mess.
Look at that red-blue county map and ponder the bitter political divisions locked in between Richmond and Boston.
Now imagine a total financial crisis ala Argentina 2001. Dollar collapse, banks closed, no ATMs, supermarkets or gas stations for months.
Think they’ll all be smiling and singing Kumbaya, neighborhood by neighborhood, hungry cold and in the dark from Richmond to Boston?
I don’t.