I’ve long been intrigued by the notion of alternate history. What if Robert E. Lee’s troop movements before the Battle of Antietam weren’t discovered by the Union wrapped around three cigars? What if Archduke Franz Ferdinand's car hadn't made that wrong turn? What if the United States had never entered the European theater in World War II? (Actually, we know the answer to this one, in the form of a hilariously tawdry novel by Newt Gingrich) What if Laura, my light, my love, my life, hadn't responded to my 4th grade Valentine by calling me a, and I quote, "Booger Face"?
While these "what if?"s are, more often than not, whimsical exercises of the imagination, I'd to like to focus this diary on a more recent, and easier to imagine, historical possibility:
What if the Republican Party hadn't stopped the Iraq War from ending?
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