Sadly 10+ years ago it was not a fiction writer who foretold of this. It was one of this financial and political melees chief architects. The same one who now lies at the bottom of the ocean. OBL.
http://www.daveedgr.com/news/osama-bin-laden-didnt-win-but-he-was-enormously-successful/
"Did Osama bin Laden win? No. Did he succeed? Well, America is still standing, and he isn’t. So why, when I called Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a counterterrorism expert who specializes in al-Qaeda, did he tell me that “bin Laden has been enormously successful”? There’s no caliphate. There’s no sweeping sharia law. Didn’t we win this one in a clean knockout?
Apparently not. Bin Laden, according to Gartenstein-Ross, had a strategy that we never bothered to understand, and thus that we never bothered to defend against. What he really wanted to do — and, more to the point, what he thought he could do — was bankrupt the United States of America. After all, he’d done the bankrupt-a-superpower thing before."