{"id":4189,"date":"2011-09-11T13:46:28","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T12:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=4189"},"modified":"2011-09-11T13:46:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T12:46:28","slug":"911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/911\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nTwin Towers<\/a>
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It’s now exactly ten years ago that the first plane crashed into the Twin Towers. I was sitting in DAIMI<\/a>‘s computer lab at the time, and I found out shortly afterwards from some Internet news source, and I quickly went up to the TV room together with lots of other people, where we watched the second plane crashing into the building live on CNN.<\/p>\n

I remember thinking at the time that George W. Bush to a large extent was responsible by infuriating most of the world with his unilateralist, born-again, right-wing policies and that it would never have happened if Al Gore had become president instead.<\/p>\n

I find it interesting to contemplate what would have happened if 9\/11 had never happened. For instance, if the CIA had found out about the plot and prevented the hijackers from boarding the planes, there would probably have been a newspaper story about the plot, but most people wouldn’t have assumed that it actually could have brought down the Twin Towers.<\/p>\n

So what would the consequences have been? Obviously Afghanistan wouldn’t have been invaded at that point, but I believe Dubya would still have been keen to invade Iraq. Would he have succeeded in building up an alliance without 9\/11? He probably would have found it easy to convince Tony Blair, but I reckon it would have been hard to add many more countries to the coalition.<\/p>\n

I also think Bush might not have been reelected in 2004, which would have led to all sorts of consequences later, for instance for the handling of the recession.<\/p>\n

In most western countries, there wouldn’t have been such a rush to introduce anti-terrorism legislation, and civil liberties would have remained stronger.<\/p>\n

In Denmark, I doubt Dansk Folkeparti would have managed to play such a pivotal role if the public hadn’t been scared witless by the thought of Muslim terrorists.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, it’s entirely possible that al-Q??idah would have managed to pull off an even worse atrocity later if 9\/11 hadn’t happened. There’s no way of knowing for sure, but I find it more likely than not that the world would have been a slightly better place if 9\/11 hadn’t happened ten years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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