Another example of the end of a newsweekly.

Time has for some time been know as a leftist rag but Newsweek wasn't thought as bad...but those days are past.

Granted this is speculation on what might have happened if 911 had been prevented, it has a strange premise.

What If 9/11 Had Never Happened?

Imagining what the world would look like today if the attacks had never happened.

How different would the world be today if there had been no 9/11? What if the attacks had been foiled or bungled?...

...let’s play a game like the one my friends at the Muzzy Lane software company are currently designing, which has the working title “New World Disorder.” The game simulates the complex interaction of economics, politics, and international relations, allowing us to replay the past.

Let’s start in January 2001 and thwart the 9/11 attacks by having Condi Rice and Paul Wolfowitz heed Richard Clarke’s warnings about Al Qaeda. The game starts off well. Al -Qaeda is preemptively decapitated, its leaders rounded up in a series of covert operations and left to the tender mercies of their home governments. President Bush gets to focus on tax cuts, his first love.

One, why would they listen to a liar and clueless bureaucrat with an overrated opinion of himself. But more to the point let's get a more realistic start back to the 90s when Bubba Clinton was offered Osama bin Laden three times. He could have killed him more than once but never gave the order. I'll give B Hussein Obama this, he gave the order Clinton would never.

...But then, three years later, the murky details of this operation surface on the front page of The New York Times. John Kerry, the Democratic candidate for the presidency, denounces the “criminal conduct” of the Bush administration...Osama bin Laden issues a fierce denunciation of the U.S. from his Saudi prison cell. It triggers a wave of popular anger in the Middle East that topples any regime seen as too close to Washington.

You're implying John F Kerry, the haughty French looking Massachusetts Democratic, who BTY served in Vietnam, was not a A list candidate in 2004 and if Bush was considered vulnerable Kerry would have been a also ran for the nomination.

The government of Qatar—gone. The government of Kuwait—gone. Above all, the government of Saudi Arabia—gone. True to form, the experts are soon all over network TV explaining how this fundamentalist backlash against the U.S.-backed oil monarchies had been years in the making (even if they hadn’t quite gotten around to predicting it beforehand). “Who lost the Middle East?” demands Kerry, pointing an accusing finger at George W. Bush. (Remember, prior to 9/11 Bush favored a reduction of U.S. overseas commitments.) The Democrats win the 2004 election, where-upon bin Laden’s new Islamic Republic of Arabia takes hostages at the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh…

In other words, if things had happened differently 10 years ago—if there had been no 9/11 and no retaliatory invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq—we might be living through an Islamist Winter rather than an Arab Spring...

And if the moon and the stars align right, Jimmy Carter would have served 2 terms, and the Soviet Union would still exist, and B Hussein Obama would have actually not rested until the job problem was solved.

What crap.