Had Gore been elected President, what would his response have been to 9/11?

Question

And what would America look like today?

Answer 1

Just look at how the Clinton Adm. answered terrorist attacks on an embassy. They sent a few scattering bombs that were more like a BB gun attack. They were afraid to ruffle the UN and Gore would have been even worse.

Answer 2

Since I doubt the Gore administration would have been on vacation as much as the one we are currently stuck with, and since more attention would have been paid to Al Queda instead of making the neocon fantasy of a US dominated middle east come to pass (1), I'd guess that Gore wouldn't have to have a response to 9/11 at all, since it wouldn't have occurred. Politically, Gore was another Clinton (Republican-lite) at the time, so corporations would still be enjoying record earnings at the expense of their employees, but the US wouldn't be the arrogant, reckless, backward nation most of the planet sees us as now.

Answer 3

when 3,000 people die in an attack... America is going to do something... it's unpardonable... even if Gandhi was president... it's beyond naive to think any other way and there is no evidence to back it up...

the attacks in the 90's killed less than a 10th the number of those on 9-11 and some of you use them as a judge? That's silly and not even close to being representative...

What exactly our reaction would have been is open to debate... but it would have been hard and people would have died... I would doubt that we would be in Iraq right now though... we would probably have that extra 100,000 searching for bin Laden...

Answer 4

If Gore have been elected President, he might have examine and delivered heavily the warnings approximately Bid weighted down desirous to attack interior the U.S. yet enable's say 9-11 occurred besides. i think of he might have solid it in a international gentle, as an attack on the West, as an attack on civilization particularly than an attack on the U.S. basically. He might have emphasised how many human beings from what share diverse countries and representing a style of faiths have been indiscriminately killed. In different words, he might have maximized the surprising professional-U.S. help that emerged in the present day after the attack. (no longer trouble-free to undergo in innovations what share pals we had in those days.) Then he might have centred single-mindedly on the conflict in Afghanistan--destroying, no longer basically chasing away, the Taliban. He might have enable U.S. troops end the job of looking and killing Bin weighted down instead of turning the job over to locals. And he would not are starting to be distracted by utilising a united states of america that had no longer something to do with 9-11: Iraq. There may well be tens of hundreds fewer wounded and approximately 3,000 fewer lifeless individuals as hence of the a pointless and endless conflict that's depleting our protection tension power and our financial device.

Answer 5

You mean had the Supreme Court not stolen the election...

Osama would have been captured/killed and al-queda would be eliminated.

We would not be in an unnecessary, ill advised war that's costing us thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars.

Iraq would not be one of the largest terrorist havens in the world.

The oil companies would not be running the white house and there would be real leadership to develop alternative fuel/ technologies.

The focus would be on solving problems and getting things done rather than coasting along and dragging up wedge issues like flag burning & gay marriage during election years.

We would have a president who does not check out for 5 weeks at a time to clear brush at his ranch.

But the biggest difference is simply that we would have a competent leader.

Answer 6

Afghanistan would have fallen, I am pretty sure of that. Iraq would still be under Saddam. Too, at the same time, it could have been the same damn result, but it would have been delivered with a clarity which we do not have from Bush.

Historically, we have had from time to time issues with the Islamic world. In the 1700s it was from piracy out of the Ivory cost. This is nothing new. What is also not new is that they tend to kill themselves off. Our response to this threat has been over the top, to say the least.

Answer 7

He'd still be delivering a speech about 9/11. And America would be asleep

Answer 8

He would probably have invaded Afghanistan, destroyed the Taliban bases and weapons, not let bin Ladin escape like Bush has done, and got out after that.

Certainly he would have done nothing in Iraq which was an enemy of al Queda and Iran.

Answer 9

Exactly the same, since it was a joint Dem and Rep vote to go to wall. He would have responded just like we did.
He may have chose Iran instead of Iraq but we would have went in to teach someone a lesson, the America public demanded it after 911, ( they just forget)

Answer 10

America would look more like canada, all socialist, or thats what he would try anyway. Also after 9/11 he would have gone after global warming not terrorists. So maybe we would have experienced more attacks on US soil.