July 21, 2003



What Should Have Been

ScrappleFace is usually pretty amusing, but this piece didn't strike me as being the least bit funny.

Evocative, yes.

Tragic, possibly.

Eloquent, undeniably.

But not funny. Have a glimpse of a world that should have been:

A little-known group of Islamic fundamentalists intended to hijack several airplanes and ram them into the buildings, causing untold devastation.

But thanks to the funding increases during the Clinton administration, the CIA had the resources to uncover the plot. It arrested several dozen men who currently await trial for conspiracy to attempt mass murder.

A spokesman in the CIA's New York office, located on the 99th floor of World Trade Center Two, said he his colleagues were "just doing what we're paid to do...provide reliable information to protect all Americans."

One issue I would take with Scott's scenario: in a world in which we were that on top of things ahead of time (under Clinton), it's not a foregone conclusion that Bush would now be President.

Posted by Phil at July 21, 2003 11:10 AM | TrackBack
Comments

You're right, in that reality the Gore-bot probably would have won.

That that would mean that Clinton wouldn't have been an utter fuck up on foreign policy, and might have reeled in the excesses of the '90s boom a bit, before their predictably tragic results when the party was over.

The Boom was followed by a predictable crash, followed by what should have been a predicted 9/11: thereby confirming the fruits of the Clinton administration on both the foreign and domestic fronts.

It is sad to me that the pendulum swing inevitably went towards a John Ashcroft being the President's domestic Bulldog.

Posted by: David Mercer at July 21, 2003 08:28 PM