If you could Terminate someone because you are Skynet, and you could care less about Sara Connor, or John Connor, who do you send the Governator back in time to wipe out? You get only one before the Terminator decides to get into politics.
I vote Barbara Bush, wife of Poppy and mother of W. That way W is never born and Poppy is perhaps more interested in banking. Babs never makes friends with John Hinckley’s parents. Definitely Babs.
As bad as the Bush family is ( and why not go back to Prescott ? ), there are certainly worse people in history. Hitler, Mao and Stalin come to mind.
I think I’d go with Hitler. I think he was more key to the rise of Nazism and it’s deeds than either Stalin or Mao were to Communism’s evils. And Karl Marx is too far back.
Either Lee Harvey Oswald or Timothy McVeigh. While killing an organized political killer probably won’t change things, Oswald and McVeigh were lone nut jobs and killing them would change history.
Probably McVeigh. 168 lives saved would be worth it.
From a utilitarian perspective Pol Pot would make a good choice. Equally Saddam Hussain is, if you consider the millions of casualties and crimes against humanities he was a factor in, and no doubt the future geopolitical consequences for the region following the 2003 invasion. As Captain Carrot points out though, it’s speculative as to whether these events would have been entirely avoided with death of a single person.
Good thing you limited it to 100 years. I’m tired of tracking down all the idiots who try to kill Hitler. They just don’t understand what a mess it makes of the timeline.
I think what makes bin Laden unique among villains is the vast amount of money he’s had at his disposal to carry out his jihad. It’s certainly possible that someone else would have created al Qaeda, but without all that cash, it might have amounted to little more than a minor irritant.