TLIAD: La Patrie ou La Mort, Nous Vaincrons

So liberia didn't, you know, disintegrate?

No. My rough-and-ready outcome for Liberia is a different Liberian Civil War, which begins in the late 1990s after the assassination of President Thomas Quiwonkpa. John McCain, who wins the 2000 presidential primaries and the election against Vice-President Mario Cuomo, sends the Marines in to protect American interests and restore order. Overwhelming force and support for the American intervention among both the international community and many Liberians means that they manage to bring a modicum of peace to the country.

By today, Liberia is doing better than OTL, but the government is an unruly coalition of parties kept in line with American money, the security forces are repressive if not outright monstrous, and the U.S. wages a drone war in West Africa from Liberian bases. There are a couple thousand U.S. troops still stationed on their soil, and they've been the target of terrorist attacks by Ansar al-Jihad, a Liberian jihadist group drawn primarily from the Mandingo and affiliated with other West African jihadist and Islamist groups.
 
I could do that. Going to visit Liberia during street protests over yet more political gridlock, with Minister of Finance Charles Taylor's new budget being voted down in Congress would be very interesting...

I might do Egypt though. On the streets during an alt-Egyptian Revolution would be fun to write, and would require a lot less new research on my part :p



Thanks, I'm glad you liked it.

No. My rough-and-ready outcome for Liberia is a different Liberian Civil War, which begins in the late 1990s after the assassination of President Thomas Quiwonkpa. John McCain, who wins the 2000 presidential primaries and the election against Vice-President Mario Cuomo, sends the Marines in to protect American interests and restore order. Overwhelming force and support for the American intervention among both the international community and many Liberians means that they manage to bring a modicum of peace to the country.

By today, Liberia is doing better than OTL, but the government is an unruly coalition of parties kept in line with American money, the security forces are repressive if not outright monstrous, and the U.S. wages a drone war in West Africa from Liberian bases. There are a couple thousand U.S. troops still stationed on their soil, and they've been the target of terrorist attacks by Ansar al-Jihad, a Liberian jihadist group drawn primarily from the Mandingo and affiliated with other West African jihadist and Islamist groups.


Oooh!

Both sound quite interesting.

The alternate Egyptian Revolution sounds quite exciting.

Liberia sounds more sedate for the "current day" timeframe of Meirowitz's writings, but still interesting with a deeper story likely to be found.

I would love to see both done.

The more African TLs the better given the paucity of such TLs generally.
 

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I just found this, and it's really fantastic, good characterization, good "world-building" (of the modern world, but still), good writing overall.

Here's hoping for another reporter-style TL.
 
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