We know how fateful that day in 2005 was when that Georgian threw the grenade at George Bush in Tbilisi. There are some similarities with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, but the similarities IMO are exaggerated.
Goes without saying that, after Cheney became president and launched his invasion of Syria, Iran, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan in 2006, the world quickly went to shit (and not just because of the Great Depression which followed, which led to far-right nationalists taking power in India, Japan, Greece, Indonesia, and Italy).
We know how, in order to sustain the invasion/occupation, Cheney ordered a draft, which led to such civil unrest that many troops were deployed at home for conterterrorism operations. We also know how Senator Obama's campaign to "bring our boys home and restore our constitution" ended in his assassination at the DNC, which led to the cancellation of the 2008 - and all subsequent - elections. Which, in turn, led to the US military splintering by 2010 into three nuclear-armed factions.
We know how 40 million Americans would not have died in the ensuing civil war, cities like Boston, Chicago, Nashville, Sacramento, and Atlanta would be more than smouldering craters, and there would be no "Christian State of America" behaving like the Taliban.
We also know how the Persian Gulf is the private lake of the "Democratic Republic of the Gulf", a statelet formed by abandoned US military forces who survive by holding the world's oil supply to ransom.
Where would the world be if Bush's rally in Tbilisi occurred without any incident? Would China have so brazenly taken back Taiwan? Would Russia have so nakedly restored its Soviet borders *and* marched onto Athens? Could the US have ended its occupation of Iraq peacefully without a humiliating Vietnam-style retreat? And how would an Obama presidency looked like?
Goes without saying that, after Cheney became president and launched his invasion of Syria, Iran, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan in 2006, the world quickly went to shit (and not just because of the Great Depression which followed, which led to far-right nationalists taking power in India, Japan, Greece, Indonesia, and Italy).
We know how, in order to sustain the invasion/occupation, Cheney ordered a draft, which led to such civil unrest that many troops were deployed at home for conterterrorism operations. We also know how Senator Obama's campaign to "bring our boys home and restore our constitution" ended in his assassination at the DNC, which led to the cancellation of the 2008 - and all subsequent - elections. Which, in turn, led to the US military splintering by 2010 into three nuclear-armed factions.
We know how 40 million Americans would not have died in the ensuing civil war, cities like Boston, Chicago, Nashville, Sacramento, and Atlanta would be more than smouldering craters, and there would be no "Christian State of America" behaving like the Taliban.
We also know how the Persian Gulf is the private lake of the "Democratic Republic of the Gulf", a statelet formed by abandoned US military forces who survive by holding the world's oil supply to ransom.
Where would the world be if Bush's rally in Tbilisi occurred without any incident? Would China have so brazenly taken back Taiwan? Would Russia have so nakedly restored its Soviet borders *and* marched onto Athens? Could the US have ended its occupation of Iraq peacefully without a humiliating Vietnam-style retreat? And how would an Obama presidency looked like?
