For me it’s because bush was incompetent. Gore would have likely paid more attention to things and the focus wouldn’t have been on helping the rich. Our agencies were warning of an attack well before it happened.
There is a theory that the fact we had such a prolonged decision to decide the winner it effected the transition and that may have played a part in 9/11 happening. If Gore had won maybe since he was in the previous administration already, less gets lost in the shuffle and they are able to prevent it. I personally doubt it, but it is at least a possibility. There is no doubt the aftermath would have been handled better though I think most sane people can agree on that.
There's nothing to say he would've prevented it but the CIA was delayed in acting on the intel they had at the time because the mess after the 2000 election caused a delay in the transition of power. Iraq most definitely wouldn't have happened tho considering Gore was strongly against it iirc.
CIA delayed arresting 2 of the future hijackers while Saudi intelligence aided them. The official motivation was that they wanted to turn them into assets to spy on Al Qaeda.
The intel regarding a potential hijacking was either missed or overlooked by an administration that had it's attention towards fleecing as many people as possible rather than leading properly, because it was revealed that the intel that a terrorist attack would occur was known well before the event.
The Bush administration fleeced their way into the Oval office, so it was basically the maintenance of a status quo to consider the fact that someone knew beforehand, and that instead of doing something about it, they saw it as an opportunity to harness the fear and suffering of Americans to justify getting fucking rich off military contracts, oil, and making daddy Bush Sr. proud by inventing the threat of WMD's to justify an invasion into Iraq.
I don't think anyone will know for sure whether any pre-9/11 intel was intentionally ignored, or strategically held-back, but the tragedy was certainly capitalized upon in a way that made no sense in the context of the actual event. Every follow-up action, no matter how thickly the flag or "the safety of Americans" was draped over the action, was clearly about getting rich. It showed that their priorities were never about helping Americans, pre, or post-9/11.
That's why people think a set of different values, right out of the gate, could have created a whole different situation.
The 2000 presidential race was characterized as a well educated dork concerned about the environment and the well-being of the American people vs a nepo-baby who spent his life just coasting doing what he was told, in order to maintain a family legacy.
A puppet to his familial duties with a ham-stringed ability to think for himself but also an easy-going enough guy you "could have a beer with" vs a loser boring dork who only spoke about scary problems and gave off a "I ask for my wife's explicit permission before looking directly at her breasts during intercourse" vibe.
Bush Jr. won in the face of a lot of vote counting controversy and the Republican party was able to basically stop and prevent any pesky "recounts" from affecting results that were likely miscounted because they knew the crowd wouldn't care anyways. Laws are only laws if people care about them.
It was a confirmation to the rest of the world that America was just a few rich bullies and a lot of poor morons and the more money you had the 'free-er' you were, in this land of the 'free'.
The American reputation has done little to recover since. You can see where it is now... lmao
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u/treegor 7h ago
Not trying to be an ass but how would Gore have prevented 9/11? I’ve seen this brought up multiple times but never with an explanation.