That I'm not so sure of. Without the war deficit, our politics wouldn't be nearly so toxic, and without BushCos long term guns and butter lending spree, the whole global economy wouldn't have spiraled up and out quite so fast or fallen so far. Iran and N Korea could have been handled very differently by a less belligerent president, and right wing polititions in Israel wouldn't have been quite so emboldened. Given a less volitile oil market, Chavez and Putin wouldn't have had all the money they gained. The rise of the US security state would have probably been slowed, with any luck at all.


And so very many, many people around the world would have had far fewer reasons to despise and fear us. Alas.