I believe America can expect, sometime within the next decade or less, that there will be an "unexpected" very unusual and comparitively rather sudden "international community" and "global economy" attention being paid (and troops deployed, of course, in the "interest of national security") in various parts of the African continent.
Our "allies" will be China, Russia and (naturally) Britain. The "coalition of the willing" will be all those nations who have had colonialist dealings with Africa in the past 200 years or so.
The African continent is a VERY large and putatively untapped reservoir of natural resources and manpower, or so it is seen. At no time will it ever be forgotten how our government, other governments and the U.N. conducted foreign policy in Sudan, Rwanda, Nigeria, South Africa, Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Liberia, and all the other nation states of that place.
Watch as the emphasis shifts from the middle east to Africa. The "War against Terrorism" will eventually be declared won, ribbons will be worn, national military cemeteries will keep filling... but the endless irony of racial prejudices of every kind will have been let loose on an unimaginable scale which will occupy our economic and political world until the next millenium, at least.
It will be extremely interesting to watch how the Black Muslims, NAACP and Congressional Black Caucus et al handle these developments. Furthermore, it will just as interesting to discover how Mexico, Columbia, Argentina, Cuba, Nicaruagua and MALDEF et al position themselves.
America, China, Russia and India are the most likely nations to find themselves desperate to exploit (i.e. "develope"?) new human and material resources. If Britain ever fully joins the European Union, then it will become the fifth column.
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