Sorry for double posting, but I wanted to bring up a few other things regarding this.
- Would there be any chance that an American administration would take a hostile/contentious approach to Pakistan? I know they have nuclear weapons so any sort of invasion is out of the question, but what if Bin Laden was found in some location in Pakistan around 2004 or 2005? Would it be possible that the US could declare them a state sponsor of terrorism, embargo them, or, at the very least, sever their close ties?
- With Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and (potentially) Pakistan as the United States's enemies in the Middle East, could there be a push to normalize relations with Iran or would that be completely out of the question? I think it would make sense to try to normalize relations with at least one of the leading powers of the Middle East (especially if the other two are Iraq, who always had strained relations with the US, and Saudi Arabia, which might be invaded).
- How would an Iraq that was not invaded by the United States handle the Arab Spring? I can't help but picture it either falling into a Syria situation (which would make the situation even worse, with both of these bordering countries being in a similar situation) or splitting into three countries and doing not terribly.
- Would the opposition to Chavez's Venezuela be more moderate ITTL than in our actual one? There would be opposition, but I don't think Chavez would be so strongly anti-American if it wasn't for the Iraq War and the 2004 Haitian Coup (and I'm assuming neither of these would happen under Gore).
- Could the Sunshine Policy in Korea have continued and worked towards the easing of tensions between the two nations? George Bush had never been very supportive of a moderate approach to North Korea and called them part of the "Axis of Evil," but I think Gore would have continued Clinton's policy of doing basically anything to keep North Korea from getting nuclear weapons.
Those are all of the solid ideas I have right now. Not sure exactly what would happen here, and I'm still trying to think of what would happen in regards to Europe, Russia, most of Latin America, and China (I'm not trying to make
everything different, just seeing where differences would exist).