WI 9/11 under Dole Administration

Assuming Bob Dole won in 1996 and then was re-elected in 2000. How would a Dole administration handle 9/11?
 
The depends on the previous five years of policy towards the radical religious threat. Would Cheny, Wolfowitz, or Rumsfeld have a major role in foreign policy? Dole had been around the inner circles of government for several deccades. His experience and foreign policy knowledge contrasted with George Jrs naivete & shallow knowledge.

They'ed still pursue Bin laden & the Al Quiada leaders. They might even take some action against the Taliban government of Afganistan if negotiations over acess to the AQ leaders are fruitless.

Action elsewhere in the ME depends on the previous five years of policy and other events we cant predict.
 
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As someone who is deeply involved in veterans affairs & I'm als wondering what influence Dole might have had on the Veterans Administration. As a badly wounded vet he may have taken a deep interest in improving the VA system.

As one of the old generation moderate Republicans Dole would have extended the vibe of the Regan era. That leads to some questions about tensions within the Republican party & what the 1990s neocons and more radical conservatives do to push their agenda. Would that accelerate the the sort of grid locked dysfunction now perceived in Congress?
 
Would Dole really run for re-election though? Given that he'd be 77 in 2000, I believe he'd only settle for one term.
 
Dole said in 1996 that he would be only a one term President.

Its close to ASB to put Bob Dole in the White House after January 2001, just because of his birth date. His last chance really was 1996.
 
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I've never heard that before... When did he say it?

Not sure but I remember him saying it. To some extent it was an election ploy, "If you vote for me, you get my full concentration for one term because I won't be running for re-election." However, that is kind of a hard promise to break.
 
As someone who is deeply involved in veterans affairs & I'm als wondering what influence Dole might have had on the Veterans Administration. As a badly wounded vet he may have taken a deep interest in improving the VA system.

As one of the old generation moderate Republicans Dole would have extended the vibe of the Regan era. That leads to some questions about tensions within the Republican party & what the 1990s neocons and more radical conservatives do to push their agenda. Would that accelerate the the sort of grid locked dysfunction now perceived in Congress?

The Clinton WH saw no way out of their Iraq conundrum, a failing cease fire punctuated by daily overflights and relatively regular bombings and a sanctions regime that was falling apart, weapons inspections that Saddam wouldn't abide by and a religiously radicalizing Iraq.

Frankly by that point in time there was no way out. Toss in your cards and Saddam fully rearms and you have a 1990 Iraq in time only religiously radicalized. Continue the status quo and you have a broke Iraq religiously radicalized, jihadist running around and headed for a civil war as we did OTL.

Dick Cheney aided and abetted Saddam in allowing him to put down the Shia rebellion in 1991 expecting reciprocity on the part of Saddam. But, Saddam just took it as a sign of American weakness and cowardice.

By 1997 Saddam had gotten too much pleasure in being the great Arab leader standing up to the West to change tracks and he had become too vilified in the U.S. to try to placate again like its the 80s.

1992/1993 were years where relations with Iraq could have gone to at least to something similar with what we have with North Korea... 1997 was too late.
 
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