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What If Sept. 11 Had Never Happened? Assume the Sept. 11 attacks had failed. Would U.S. troops be in Iraq? Who would be president? Would another attack have materialized? Where would we stand as a member of the community of nations?

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What If Sept. 11 Had Never Happened?

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What If Sept. 11 Had Never Happened?

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Assume the Sept. 11 attacks had failed. Would U.S. troops be in Iraq? Who would be president? Would another attack have materialized? Where would we stand as a member of the community of nations?

Guests:

John Heilemann, author of "The Power Grid" column for New York magazine; editor, What if 9/11 Never Happened?

Ron Suskind, Washington-based journalist; author of The One Percent Doctrine

Andrew Sullivan, conservative blogger, author of The Conservative Soul

Dahlia Lithwick, Slate judicial correspondent