Chaos Unleashed: a 9/11 with WMDs TL

Amazing timeline, I know I speak for most (if not all) of us when I say I would very much like to read a second future history installment. It would most likely be less war-oriented. Mexico and the War on Drugs and Illegal Immigration, space development (probably accelerated under successive Republican administrations), the subprime loan crisis (which will still probably happen, just at a later date), and various other American domestic things. I would also like to see the state of all of these countries that have been the center of conflict in the alt 00 decade in the 10's. It would be interesting to see what happens in Israel/Palestine now that Hamas doesn't have money and guns from Iran. Other things include the South Sudan referendum, Greece falling apart financially (which together with the subprime loan crisis could trigger a global economic recession), the wider state of the EU, and the fate of right-wing governments in western europe.
 
I'm not sure if I'm getting it right, but it does seem that the Subprime crisis (and the causes to it thereof) was butterflied away. Which is a good thing.

Marc A

P.S. Eagerly waiting for a sequel!

P.P.S. Too bad the Navy already had a USS George H. W. Bush - Bush Jr.'s performance as a wartime president ITTL would earn him a carrier
 
WMD are unnecceray for a 5 digit mass casualty scenario, just manage to ram the planes much lower down the towers.

As for the conflict with Pakistan, I think it would be a bit more difficult than that and it's not impossibe that Musharraf would be overthrown by militants who wanted to keep fighting.

Also, in the aftermath of a nuclear attack Congress might actually get off it's ass and actually declare war.

Also the Army would have been expanded right away, something Rumsfeld resisted for years.
 
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Interesting timeline, with some fascinating long term effects.

As someone mentioned, the Republicans look better in this TL than in our TL, but paradoxically so do the Dems. With a war on terror remaining popular for much longer, with none of the “Bush Lied, People Died” nonsense, some of the worst behavior of the Dems in recent years is avoided. Republican political dominance puts a lid on the worse domestic excesses of the Dems as well.

As a bonus, Barack Obama likely remains an obscure State Senator.
Sarah Palin might still be McCain’s VP, if he thinks he needs a woman on the ticket to counter Hillary, but less controversial.

The economy, as suggested in the TL, takes a drubbing, but soars due to rebuilding and war time spending. There seems to be a suggestion that some of the risky loans, encouraged by government policy in our TL, does not take place, thus helping to avoid the 2007-08 economic downturn.

There is little mention of a Bush domestic agenda, aside from getting the economy right. Likely on the back burner, unless it can be sold as a wartime measure.

Perhaps along those lines, more drilling, especially in ANWR, but also more spending on alternative energy.
 
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