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Without a strong American presence, the old violence will erupt again. This is hardly the first time an empire has tried to subdue populations. Russia tried it as the USSR - today, all those little conquered countries have split up and become independent states along historic ethnic and religious lines. Same for the lands once ruled by Rome, ditto for the Mongol Empire, and so on. And the whole Christian vs Islam contest has also raged gone on for centuries.
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