BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world to General Discussion@lemmy.world · 6 months agoHow do you think Gore would have dealt with Afghanistan?message-squaremessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down110
arrow-up113arrow-down1message-squareHow do you think Gore would have dealt with Afghanistan?BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world to General Discussion@lemmy.world · 6 months agomessage-square15fedilink
minus-squarejacksilver@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·6 months agoIs the assumption we would have still ended up in Afghanistan? With Gore as president im not sure that would be a guarantee.
minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·6 months agoAfghanistan was protecting bin Ladn. I think any President would have taken action.
minus-squarealeph@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·6 months agoThere’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.
minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·6 months agoThat’s a whole other issue. in my opinion, Bush Jr. was going to invade Iraq no matter what. 9/11 was just the excuse.
minus-squarealeph@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·6 months agoI thought this whole thought exercise was based on the assumption that Gore became president in 2000 instead of Bush?
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.
That’s a whole other issue.
in my opinion, Bush Jr. was going to invade Iraq no matter what. 9/11 was just the excuse.
I thought this whole thought exercise was based on the assumption that Gore became president in 2000 instead of Bush?