Sadly, there is little hope that the ‘exceptional’ Anglo-American establishment and their head-chopping ideological brothers will bow out gracefully. No indeed, their approach seems to be similar to the one portrayed by the quintessential power-mad tyrant as represented in literature throughout the ages – you know, the guy who, when faced with his inevitable fall from power and grace, decides something along the lines of “If I can’t have it, no one can!” How very cliché of them.