If Al Gore were in office, I imagine Joe Lieberman would also be in office, no? I imagine that latter fact would not only provide the Islamists with more than enough fodder for recruiting more Jihadists, but be the stuff of endless conspiratorial babble about the Jews .......oops, I meant to say "zionists" controlling the world.
Especially inasmuch as he would have not said "you're either with us or against us", I doubt if there would be quite so many dunderheads in the world acting as apologists for the Islamists.
911 was in planning for quite some time and would have happened no matter who was in office. Had it been Gore, I would expect him to have gone into Afghanistan in pursuit of Bin Laden, but unlike Bush, I do believe he would have actually pursued Bin Laden.
I doubt Gore would have gone into Iraq, given no bid contracts to Haliburton, nor tortured anybody. He would have spent more effort building concensus, and I do imagine our image on the world stage would be different. Of course, I never underestimate the ability of certain people to offer up endless banal and extremely broad brushed condemnations, since anti-americanism is such an easy sport to undertake. It requires no intelligence, nothing by way of analytic abilities, and provides those who bash away with the illusion of the sort of moral superiority they otherwise lack in their daily travails.
Last edited by Lackluster; 05-05-2008 at 06:34 AM.
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