Comments on: The news that isn’t happening https://thenewneo.com/2005/04/02/news-that-isnt-happening/ A blog about political change, among other things Sun, 04 Mar 2007 07:09:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Paul https://thenewneo.com/2005/04/02/news-that-isnt-happening/#comment-279 Sun, 03 Apr 2005 11:50:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2005/04/news-that-isnt-happening.html#comment-279 Give me history that is real and I will deal with it. Any other type of history, to me , is poppycock!

]]> By: meander https://thenewneo.com/2005/04/02/news-that-isnt-happening/#comment-280 Sun, 03 Apr 2005 11:50:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2005/04/news-that-isnt-happening.html#comment-280 Interesting to me that you should muse on the alternative history scenario. I’ve just been catching up on the first two seasons of the TV show “24” and, in one of the episodes, as the president is deciding on whether or not to go to war against the Middle East, his military experts assert that the potential death toll for the US troops would probably number some 20,000 soldiers. Now,of course, I realize this is just a TV show but it made me think back on the projections from the MSM on how many US deaths were likely from the Iraq invasion. Interesting how all that wailing and chest beating can just disappear once proven wrong. None of us take lightly the sad reality that even one soldier lost his life in this undertaking but the number is blessedly so much smaller than many “experts” predicted.

]]> By: Tran Sient https://thenewneo.com/2005/04/02/news-that-isnt-happening/#comment-281 Sun, 03 Apr 2005 11:50:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2005/04/news-that-isnt-happening.html#comment-281 You can also find an alternative history at Clinton Library.

]]> By: Loyal Achates https://thenewneo.com/2005/04/02/news-that-isnt-happening/#comment-282 Sun, 03 Apr 2005 11:50:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2005/04/news-that-isnt-happening.html#comment-282 Here’s your alternate history:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060528370/qid=1112467861/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/104-6590488-2949569

]]> By: Gerard https://thenewneo.com/2005/04/02/news-that-isnt-happening/#comment-283 Sun, 03 Apr 2005 11:50:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2005/04/news-that-isnt-happening.html#comment-283 Or this page on the excellent “What If ” series:
Uchronia: The Alternate History List
a href=”http://www.uchronia.net/bib.cgi/label.html?id=cowlwhatif”

Rob Cowley (Son of Malcom) does the best job in the field.

]]> By: Gerard https://thenewneo.com/2005/04/02/news-that-isnt-happening/#comment-284 Sun, 03 Apr 2005 11:50:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2005/04/news-that-isnt-happening.html#comment-284 The again, there’s the interesting

Today in Alternate History
http://althistory.blogspot.com/

]]> By: Gerard https://thenewneo.com/2005/04/02/news-that-isnt-happening/#comment-285 Sun, 03 Apr 2005 11:50:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2005/04/news-that-isnt-happening.html#comment-285 Actually, as you might be aware, there is a large genre of alternate histories laying about. These range from the absurd-high-sci-fi efforts to ones done by highly regarding writers and historians.

Google searches under phrases “alternate history” or “alternate histories” yield some starting points.

But I take you point about having a service that tracks the what-if more closely tied to the present.

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