Recent content by Hansmeister

The irony is that the islamofascist movement would probably be in better shape if there hadn't been a Bin Laden and the 9/11 attack hadn't happened. The tactic of attacking US outposts in the Middle East was succeeding in dislodging the US. Slowly, but effective. The 9/11 attack had the...

Well, that's the problem, there aren't any real viable options. NK wants nukes and we don't have the power to stop them. The only ones who would've any chance of influencing NK are the Chinese - which is what the 6-party talks are really about: convincing the chinese that they need to pressure...

Well, the easiest way to butterfly away WWII is to butterfly away the Great Depression. Remove the Smoot-Hawley tariffs and the wrongheaded deflationary policy of the Federal Reserve and there is no Great Depression, which means no rise of totalitarian regimes throughout europe.

Actually, diplomacy had completely failed. NK had simply moved to developing nukes at different sites other than the one monitored. It was when that deception was proven that the "deal" with NK broke down. Once we refused to continue to pay bribes since NK was violating the agreement the NK...

9-11 would've happened regardless of who was in the WH, to believe anything else is tinfoil-hat shit. The initial reaction by Gore would've most likely been very similar. If anything it would've been slower, since that is what the Pentagon brass preferred (in OTL Rummy badgered the brass to...

Yes, we would have. I worked Ops prior & during the war, and our original plans involved no allied troops. It would have been actually easier to do without the British, because we could have skipped the silly theater at the UN, which was a distraction before the war, and morphed to an even...

One of the big reasons why war didn't break out sooner was that A-H would've been against it. A-H was in no shape to fight a war and it took the event of the assassination to get them to go for it.

The Diocletian "reforms" pretty much demoneytized the Roman empire, devolving it to a barter economy. Basically, he changed it into a proto-communist state. Rome never recovered economically from those changes.

Would anyone have noticed if he had been dead? He couldn't have appeared more lifeless than as a candidate. :D

Hmm, Augustus dies 9 years earlier. I guess he got knocked off by Septimus. :D

Well, there is a reason the 3rd ID is know as "The Rock of the Marne", it's because the french credited them with winning the 2nd battle of the Marne and saving Paris in 1918. However, it is unlikely that the war would have lasted beyond the summer of 1917 without the US declaring war. The...

We would have been spared a lot of idiotic political posturing during the last Presidential campaign.

A couple of point. First off, for those here who might suddenly panic, this is purely a WI scenario, there's little chance that we run out of oil anytime soon for real. Second, virtually nobody uses oil for electricity generation. So all those wind power, solar power, and nuclear power...

The US would be more like, god forbid, CANADA! :eek:

Actually, there is about zero risk to the environment from drilling in ANWAR. This is just a silly argument by religious fundies in the environuts movement without any base in science. However, ANWAR would only provide about 5 percent of our oil demand by itself that would be not enough...