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The outside support will never stop, like you said, until all the oil is gone. but then there will be other problems such is floundering economies because a lot of those economies depend on their oil exports. who knows what additional problems that will bring. to a certain degree though, i have a feeling that if foreign support does disappear, the violence won't end. i feel like it will escalate fast into somehting big. to a certain degree, while foreign support causes a shitload of problems, it does prevent others.
on a side-note, i saw a discussion i saw on pbs mentioned that the middle east is ready for democracy, but the outside world needs to allow fundamentalist pan-islamist groups to take power first and wait until the population can eventually overthrow them due to a desire for refrom. i think that reform will be what eventually gets rid of a lot of these extremist ideologies as well. however in the current climate of the middle-east, i don't think anyone has the patience to allow these groups to take place. who knows though, we have a whole lifetime ahead of us to see what happens.
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