AHC: Create a No-9/11 TL That Is Compelling From Start to Finish

Exactly what it says on the tin. Create a world where 9/11 doesn't occur where the United States doesn't remain in the perpetual euphoria it was in post the mid 1990s.
 
what kind of POD are we looking for here? does it have to be something where the only key result before becoming more divergent is no 9/11 or can that be a consequence of the rest of the TL's divergences? and does this disallow 9/11 analogues? (say, an equivalent attack on Red Square?)
 
Well, the US will still get into Afghanistan. The World Trade Centre failed attack in 1993, the African embassy bombings in 98, and the bombing of the Cole in 2000 collectively gave the USA sufficient causus belli for Bill Clinton to seriously consider ordering the invasion of Afghanistan.

He did not do it since was too close of the 2000 election time. Going into Afghanistan right before election would serious hunt Al Gore chances of wining and the Dems in general.

Now, if the POD is the plotters are captured before they can act, this would be icing on the cake for war against Terrorism.

So, we would still a War on Terror and Invasion of Afghanistan under Bush. But very different without 9/11 and later the Invasion of Iraq.
 
Bush seems more likely to invade Iraq earlier without the distraction of having to go to Afghanistan. The real goal is Iran of course, and that very well could be this timeline's second war.
 
Dude, no offense but the title make it sound like what you're really angling for is somebody to write your TL for you. No one is going to do that.
 
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Unless you change things up domestically, Americans are still going to feel economic pain in the late 00s, and experience a very uneven recovery, regardless of whether 9/11 and those foreign policy responses happen.
 
Exactly what it says on the tin. Create a world where 9/11 doesn't occur where the United States doesn't remain in the perpetual euphoria it was in post the mid 1990s.

Here ya go:

https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-list-of-billboard-1-hits-version-2-0.387365

(Mostly told from a pop music POV, but among other things, Reagan is assassinated, MLK isn't, Google never exists, the WTC is blown up by fundamentalist Christian terrorists, and Neil deGrasse Tyson helps save America from apocalyptic panic.)
 
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