DBWI: What if We Had Managed To Kill Osama Bin Laden in 2011?

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Sachyriel

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OOC: yeah I thought DBWIS went elsewhere maybe a mod can move it.

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Well if he was dead then he wouldn't have tried to take down the Freedom Towers in 2016, thank god he was stopped that time.
 

Dom

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Moved to After 1900. Try to remember that DBWIs aren't roleplays guys, I don't want to move this to the sandbox.
 
The presidential election of 2012 probably wouldn't have been nearly as bitter and nasty and so incredibly close as it was. Of course we finally got rid of the Electoral College after another case where the popular vote winner lost the electoral vote (second time in 12 years!).
 
The Empire State Building might still be standing today :(
Butterfly effects are hard to predict, but that's doubtful. Bin Laden was mostly just an isolated figurehead for a decentralised Al-Qaeda movement once he and the Taliban been removed from Afghanistan, so its hard to see that his death would really have changed so much, no matter how much disgruntled jihadi youths like to chant his name in the streets.

If the capture/assassination attempt in Abbottabad hadn't been so badly botched we might have been spared the taped executions of several Navy Seals which did for Obama's second term prospects like the Iranian hostage crisis did for Jimmy Carter, though.
 
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