What if 9/11 Never Happened?
By Paul
“The value of counterfactual history lies not in the questions it raises about the past, but the questions it raises about the present and future, and in the reminder that there is nothing inevitable about the world we observe.”
- John Kay
New York Magazine asks the that question after five years (via FP blog);
“Without 9/11, would the London plot have been foiled? Without 9/11, would there have been an Iraq war? Without the Iraq war, would there have been a London plot?
WE’D BE IN A TENSE STANDOFF WITH CHINA Thomas L. FriedmanYOUR APARTMENT WOULD BE WORTH A LOT LESS
Jonathan Miller, real-estate appraiser, Miller SamuelTHE WEEK WOULD HAVE SEVEN SUNDAYS
Bernard-Henri Lévy, author, American VertigoTHE SUPREME COURT WOULD HAVE A MONUMENT TO THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
Dahlia Lithwick, Supreme Court correspondent, SlateBUSH’S WAR WOULD BE AT HOME
Frank Rich, columnist, New York TimesWE’D HAVE BOUGHT A LITTLE TIME
Leon Wieseltier, literary editor, The New RepublicNEW YORK WOULD BE UNRECOGNIZABLE
Tom Wolfe, NovelistFREDDY FERRER WOULD BE MAYOR
Reverend Al SharptonTHE LONDON AIRPLANE PLOT WOULD HAVE WORKED
Ron Suskind, author, The One Percent DoctrineTHE NEW DOWNTOWN? THE NEW WEST SIDE? ATLANTIC YARDS? FORGET IT.
Dan Doctoroff, deputy mayor of economic development and rebuildingTHE U.S. WOULD HAVE A SANE OIL POLICY
Doris Kearns Goodwin , author, Team of RivalsWE WOULDN’T LOOK UP
Robert Ivy, editor-in-chief, Architectural RecordWE’D HAVE PEACE, TRIVIA, AND FOREBODING
Fareed Zakaria, editor, Newsweek InternationalMOBILE, ALABAMA, WOULD BE A HAPPIER PLACE
Dalton Conley, chair, department of sociology, New York UniversityBUSH WOULD HAVE LAUNCHED A MARSHALL PLAN FOR NEW ORLEANS
Douglas Brinkley, author, The Great DelugeNEW YORK WOULDN’T KNOW HOW IMPORTANT IT IS
Hank Sheinkopf, political consultantRUDY GIULIANI WOULDN'T BE "AMERICAN'S MAYOR"
Tony Harris and Brian K. Vaughan
co-creators of Ex Machina, a graphic-novel series about an ex-superhero New York City mayor”
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