User blog comment:YNot1989/Future of An Independent in 2000/@comment-440250-20090718151341

Maybe a Laos-style conflict if Obama is going to be the new JFK, namely the Burmese resistance is given US training and Arms from CIA advisors. Just like the KLA in Yugoslavia and the Contras in Nicaragua

So Obama fights a proxy war.

But still, a Second Cold War makes for a much more interesting TL. Why all this surrender to the UN? France, russia and China had vested interests in Iraq (Russia having the stake in saddam's debt and China for oil) and armed him. The nuclear plants also had components from France and Germany. They also gave him material support (Operation Sarindar)

Even if the UN did go into Iraq instead of the Coalition, it would be a Fiasco that would make Bosnia and Rwanda small potatoes by comparison. there is also damning evidence of Saddam misusing oil for food money as well as many in the UN, including Kofi Annan's son, benefiting. Imagine the reaction when evidence of oil for food comes out. Perhaps you could write the oil for food scandal into your TL, and show its impact. Maybe a botched UN expedition is shown to be bogged down and Edwards has to send soldiers to back it up.

Neocongate? After 9/11, they would come on TV and say that it was an inside job. And "liberty" and other handwaves don't work on people like Bill Cooper and Alex Jones (Bill Cooper's death would get far more attention ATL with more use of the internet earlier). Perhaps Edwards gets the scientific community to prove that it was not an inside job. (Truthers and Earlier Birthers means that you'd have conspiracy films with loose change level viewers (over 100 million) earlier ATL)

I am not bashing your TL. I am not trolling, i am merely showing areas of improvement.