Stop Hitler or bin Laden & 9/11?Follow

I have a time machine and a mission for you. You may choose one of two tasks: Kill Hitler or Stop 9/11 and warn the government.

If you kill Hitler, you will be transported to the Battle of the Somme during World War I and use a sniper shot to kill Hitler before he can return to post WWI Germany and enter politics.

If you stop 9/11, you will be transported to an al'Qaeda training camp where Osama bin Laden was filmed greeting and meeting with several of the 9/11 hijackers prior to the event. You will use a grenade to kill them, then seize materials related to the plot to give to the US government, warning them of the details of the foiled attack.

Whichever mission you choose, you will be successful and unharmed. You can choose to take neither mission, but I won't send you anywhere else and, if you attempt to deviate from your goal, you'll be instantly returned to the present. Obviously, your mission will have significant impact on the present day although no one can say exactly what that will be.

Changing the past doesn't necessarily mean you'll change your present. You could split the timeline and still not change anything. Ignoring that, I chose to stop OBD, because fighting ***** made America awesome and all the efforts against OBD has been general detrimental, so ... eliminate the detrimental event.

But then Captain America won't have a chance to punch Hitler.

Overall I've never been a fan of time travel stories. You either end up with split timelines and change nothing, time paradoxes where history ends up getting worse, or "fate" intervenes and instead of changing history for the better someone else takes the mantle to fill the void you created and history goes on the same.

In my perfect back-in-time world, Hilter would be stopped from entering politics by less violent means. Regardless, perhaps eliminating the Holocaust would have changed the course of history enough to prevent 9/11 and/or other multi-casualty terrorist events.

It's my poll so it does.

I voted for neither, because of Hitler the world was pulled from the greatest monetary depression in our history. Sure he did a lot of bad stuff but the fastest way to end a good depression is to have a good war.

As for 9/11 the government was warned of possible attacks, well in advance, they did nothing to stop this. Hell they had NORAD running drills based on the exact same scenario, as it was unfolding.

So no id stop neither. Part of our history and both events have in their own way helped to restructure the world.

Now if I could borrow your time machine id like to go back in time and bet that in 2008 the US would elect a black president, I am quite sure I would get nice odds on that.

Hey speak for yourself, my country (Canada) has come through it just fine. For the first time in my life I can save money by buying things. 4-7 cents on every CND $ ain't not bad.

Maybe you should have invested in Halliburton or Blackwater!

I don't believe your choice of destination for stopping 9/11 would have affected much.

He now plays EQ2.

I chose 9/11, mostly because I wasn't alive during WW2.

How's that "I wanna know what love is...!" thread working out for ya

The underlying theme of what I'm writing, the motif if you will, is loss, misery, rejection, etc.

By the way you treat me I feel pretty informed on the subject. </3