How would Gore have handled 9/11?

Assuming Gore wins in 2000 and 9/11 occurs as IOTL, how does President Gore handle it? I'm assuming no war in Iraq, but what about Afghanistan?
 

Wolfpaw

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Better than Bush.

We still go into Afghanistan to hunt down UBL, he still skedaddles for Pakistan.
 
I don't think 9/11 would have happened if Gore had won. I think one of the preconditions for 9/11 was Bush winning.
IIRC Bin Laden had been planning an attack on the US as far back as '96. It might not have occurred on the same date, or even on the same targets, but something would have happened.
 

Hyperion

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I don't think 9/11 would have happened if Gore had won. I think one of the preconditions for 9/11 was Bush winning.

That's getting into conspiracy theory territory. I guess you don't like being a member of this board very much.

The 9/11 plot was already in development even before the election, even before people knew that it was going to be a Bush vs. Gore campaign.

Two options come to mind. One is that Gore appoints someone different as Attorney General and Secretary of Defense, and a few other lower positions, that works out better than OTL and they learn of the plot or of a plot in general before 9/11, disrupting the operation.

That or if it happens as in OTL, Gore may or may not develop some sort of Homeland Security department, but more than likely I see no Iraq and him pouring a lot more manpower into Afghanistan from the beginning. Not gradually building up over several years.
 
That's getting into conspiracy theory territory. I guess you don't like being a member of this board very much.

The 9/11 plot was already in development even before the election, even before people knew that it was going to be a Bush vs. Gore campaign.

Two options come to mind. One is that Gore appoints someone different as Attorney General and Secretary of Defense, and a few other lower positions, that works out better than OTL and they learn of the plot or of a plot in general before 9/11, disrupting the operation.

That or if it happens as in OTL, Gore may or may not develop some sort of Homeland Security department, but more than likely I see no Iraq and him pouring a lot more manpower into Afghanistan from the beginning. Not gradually building up over several years.


no real conspiracy needed to butterfly away 9/11. Gore would have kept Clinton's priority about Al Qaeda, making the operation that much harder to pull off.

Bush's own intel people admitted later they scaled back investigations of terrorists between jan 20 2001 and sept 11 2001.
 
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