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Modern What if: no 9/11 terror attacks?

A one term Bush most likely.
No, he'll get his second term because AQ didn't learn what the Imperial Japanese military overall (outside of the faction that Yamamoto worked with, which is so minor at the time it was immensely insignificant) had after WW2: Don't Attack America Directly. Period, end of story. Do that and they'll move and annihilate mountains to get at you, turn your country into a pancake, and find you and kill you. When roused into an aggressive fervor, Americans tend to make Juggernaut impressions.
 
AQ didn't learn what the Imperial Japanese military overall (outside of the faction that Yamamoto worked with, which is so minor at the time it was immensely insignificant) had after WW2: Don't Attack America Directly. Period, end of story. Do that and they'll move and annihilate mountains to get at you, turn your country into a pancake, and find you and kill you. When roused into an aggressive fervor, Americans tend to make Juggernaut impressions.

Agreed. The residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki know this all too well.....at least, they should. Unfortunate, but we had to drop the bombs.
 
Agreed. The residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki know this all too well.....at least, they should. Unfortunate, but we had to drop the bombs.
The situation then was either Operation Starvation (which is as horrific as it sounds), Operation Downfall (to call this the 'god forsaken clusterfuck to end all clusterfucks' is understating how bad it was, people call it the 'flamethrower to the bunkers' solution), or nuke them first to show the Japanese that they have literally no hope left of defending and prepare a stockpile if that doesn't pursuade them for use in Operation Downfall.
 
As the thread title says: what if September 11th was just a normal day like any other? How would the lack of terror attacks and subsequent invasions into the Middle East as a result of said attacks shape the culture and world of the early 2000's?
Pakistan and the Taliban finish the process of wrapping up the Northern Alliance, which likely tries to retreat north and get told to fuck off.

The internal domestic issues and rights violations continue to get worse at the pace of the drug war, instead of the hyper accelerated pace of the terrorism war. Rumor has it that Dubya wanted to head off part of the property and financial crash and gets some regulation on that specifcally.

The No Fly Zones over Iraq keep going, but without the general war fever, the invasion isn't happening. Saddam grows older and dies, one of his monstrous sons tries to inherit, Iraq begins collapsing. Very slowly. Or finds someone else to keep the Baathism going.
 
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