Okay, since we've got a thread going on here about a worse 9/11, might as well make a sister thread?
What if, for whatever reason, al-Qaeda never manages to launch 9/11? Perhaps bin Laden dies in the late 90'. Whatever. How does the world progress from there, socially, politically, economically, everything?
If you want, let's say radicals still attack targets in India and Russia still has problems with the Chechens, but as a whole the world is unaffected. Do we get a more peaceful decade, perhaps a 90's repeat? (Yes, I know about the genocides in the Balkans and Rwanda, but I still mean as a whole.)
Discuss.
What if, for whatever reason, al-Qaeda never manages to launch 9/11? Perhaps bin Laden dies in the late 90'. Whatever. How does the world progress from there, socially, politically, economically, everything?
If you want, let's say radicals still attack targets in India and Russia still has problems with the Chechens, but as a whole the world is unaffected. Do we get a more peaceful decade, perhaps a 90's repeat? (Yes, I know about the genocides in the Balkans and Rwanda, but I still mean as a whole.)
Discuss.