into an aimless description of fictional video games that everyone else oohs and ahs over.
- A lot of wish fulfillment, amplified by excessive fan participation
This makes me want to read it even MORE.
into an aimless description of fictional video games that everyone else oohs and ahs over.
- A lot of wish fulfillment, amplified by excessive fan participation
the Jack the Ripper one had a young H.G. Wells in it (because of course)
Is it particularly bad? It just looks like a simultaneously dense yet facile infodump timeline to me.
Alternate microhistory is fun, folks.Is it particularly bad? It just looks like a simultaneously dense yet facile infodump timeline to me.
Well, it's microscopically fun.Alternate microhistory is fun, folks.
You guys and your antiquated alternate historiography!Well, it's microscopically fun.
I'd like to see that, actually. It's pretty obvious that doing something instead of nothing at all for all of 2003 would have made the later situation massively better, but exactly what "something" would entail or how the Bush administration could be persuaded to do anything but flail around are interesting questions.
Not true actually, what wasn't around anymore were the facilities to make more but there's been a horrifying number if Gas inclusive IEDs in the Iraq Insurgency and the ISIS war as a result of the fact that a lot of shit just got burried out in the desert.and the WMD were never found.
Listening France and Germany instead of insulting them (la vieille Europe, elle t'emmerdes, Donald Tr... pardon, Donald Rumsfeld) and NOT invading Iraq would have greatly helped the entire world, really - non-existence of ISIS included ten years down the road. Saddam was a massive SOB, but he was a threat to nobody bar his own people... and the WMD were never found.
Lesson number 1: never, ever add more chaos to the usual chaos of the Middle-East, Earth most insane place.
Don't think predictions have proven to be a going concern over the last few years but given we had Iraq under essentially a permanent state of siege and was bombing it for relatively minor infractions of the sanctions regime, Saddam's days of being a regional threat or a would-be genocide were over.
In retrospect, the first Bush administration's decision not to support the rebels in 1991 when Iraq rose was pretty spectacularly terrible.
On the other hand, a lot of the people I know who supported war in 2003 had opposed going to war at all in '91.Which is rather grim when "see how the first Bush knew not to invade" was a thing that I kept hearing going around in the 00s as if things were sunshine and roses as a result
On the other hand, a lot of the people I know who supported war in 2003 had opposed going to war at all in '91.
(which is an attitude that seems to have been growing again on the left with my generation, understandably if annoyingly)
A mixture of looking back and thinking "why were we calling it warmongering to stop a dictatorship conquering another country when we were students?" and the fact that it coming up in the intervening years was mostly due to Iraqi exiles annoyed that he hadn't been toppled then or other people mentioning the same, I think.How did they explain that one??
A mixture of looking back and thinking "why were we calling it warmongering to stop a dictatorship conquering another country when we were students?"