What if 9/11 Never Happened?
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You have a terror base in the Middle East exporting terror and planning strikes on Americans and Europeans. The longer they have it the more sophisticated they get it's that simple.
Eventually something is going to happen to force the US to act. With Iraq the continued bombings, no weapons inspectors and terror training camps will continue to be issues, but sort of Saddam doing something very stupid again to enrage Americans again he is fine.
Eventually something is going to happen to force the US to act. With Iraq the continued bombings, no weapons inspectors and terror training camps will continue to be issues, but sort of Saddam doing something very stupid again to enrage Americans again he is fine.
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IIRC, there was going to be the possibility of a Second Cold War with China over something, perhaps the Korean peninsula; if anything, I expect a Second Korean War might happen that would end up being the key war of the 2000's ITTL instead of the War on Terror.
Getting to no 911 type events requires dialing back the move by the fundamentalists towards active violence. Perhaps that was suposed to be implied in the OP.
Admiral Beez
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Best way to that end is to prevent US interference in the Middle East, including GW1
No 9/11 doesn't necessarily mean no Bush victory in 2004. His numbers weren't soooo bad before 9/11, comparable to what they were before the election. Unless his domestic plans end up being really terrible there's not really a solid reason why he can't win. Now, the Great Recession might occur around the same time, which can either change the impact of 2008 and give it to the Dems or leave Bush's GOP successor (hopefully not Cheney) with a major crisis. If Ron Paul runs we'll probably still see the Tea Party, but they probably won't be as strong without someone like Obama being in the Oval.
When it comes to the Middle East, the Arab Spring will probably still happen. People are still going to fight against dictatorships and for democracy, besides the War on Terror's butterflies for the extremist movement. This means that Saddam's going to have to deal with protesters just as Assad will, (and he'll get sanctioned because he'll be as brutal as always) and we're going to still see a lot of instability across the Middle East. Hopefully al-Qaeda and other extremists don't win out over the democrats, though.
When it comes to the Middle East, the Arab Spring will probably still happen. People are still going to fight against dictatorships and for democracy, besides the War on Terror's butterflies for the extremist movement. This means that Saddam's going to have to deal with protesters just as Assad will, (and he'll get sanctioned because he'll be as brutal as always) and we're going to still see a lot of instability across the Middle East. Hopefully al-Qaeda and other extremists don't win out over the democrats, though.
