Is the assumption we would have still ended up in Afghanistan? With Gore as president im not sure that would be a guarantee.
Afghanistan was protecting bin Ladn. I think any President would have taken action.
There’s a good chance that the 2003 Iraq war wouldn’t have happened, though. That was very much a Neo-Con project of the Bush administration.
Oil man Cheney wanted to open Afghanistan to a pipeline project.
Gore probably would have used special ops teams to locate and extract bin Ladn.
Also, the Taliban destroyed statues of the Buddha that had stood for centuries. That happened in March of 2001. The Bush administration didn’t want to hurt the oil deal, so they let the Taliban go ahead. Gore might have done more to stop the destruction. Seeing America take a firm stand on a minor issue might have deterred the Afghans from allowing bin Ladn to hide there.
Another thing. There was a report issued before the 9/11 attack. If Gore had been President, the White House might have acted to stop the attack.
It was more than about oil pipelines. A lot of people felt like we helped break Afghanistan, so we should help fix it. And we almost did. Things were turning around, albeit slowly and costly, until Trump turn coated against the provincial government and gave the country over to the Taliban, erasing twenty years of progress, condemning millions of Afghanis to live and die under far right religious law. Should be no surprise, that’s what Republicans want for America.
I thought we found out the main reason for 9/11 happening was bush’s administration ignoring the multiple warnings being given by the pentagon?
Gore could very likely have meant the attack never happened—imagine how different the world could have been
Which is why you vote against the GOP in every election.
They have been wrong about everything since Nixon.
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Meh. I haven’t heard anything other than loose connections and conincidences, on a backdrop of incompetence and ignorance. Bin Laden had a large family who was extremely well connected. So did Bush. Their families were in the same business and Saudi Arabia was a close ally of the United States during the heydey of both families businesses.
