A secular regime is toppled by Western intervention, but an Islamic backlash turns the liberators into occupiers.
This is not the Middle Ea.
As the media accuse Western soldiers of barbarity and a region slides into chaos, the armies of God clash on an ancient river and an accidental empire arises.
Caught between interventionists at home and fundamentalists abroad, a prime minister flounders as his ministers betray him, alliances fall apart, and a runaway general makes policy in the field.
A secular regime is toppled by Western intervention, but an Islamic backlash turns the liberators into occupiers