If Al Gore were elected instead of George Bush and 9/11 still occurred either we would be all dead or me and you would be wearing Burkhas and the men would be wearing turbans. The upside is that most of the Hollywood liberals would be gone.
Nothing else matteras, Hatteras.
OBL would be living in the White House.
The French would love us.
Sor starters we would fondly recall the days when we only paid 3 dollars per gallon for gas as we handed over the 5 dollars per.
I certainly hope the school didn't ask this question.
1) The international Left and the media would have supported Gore's invasion of Iraq.
3000 Americans would have died on Sept. 11th and all we would have done is lob a few TLAM's.
If Gore had been elected, the WTC would still have been destroyed, but the Taliban and Saddam Hussein would still be in power; more terrorist attacks would be taking place, but Gore would still be telling us (as he is now) that global warming is the biggest issue we face.
I think the liklihood that we would have gotten any cooperation from the muslim world would have been greatly hampered because of Lieberman--it would have made a lot of that very difficult.
Also, I think the Iranians would have no inspections, the North Koreans would still be getting all that help from us as they proliferated.
I think we would have not dared strike back at Al Qaeda-- I think we would have decided to just absorb the bloow and grab our ankles.
Intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq would have been unlikely. The Taliban and Saddam Hussein would still be running their brutal regimes. There would be some cruise-missile shaped holes in empty desert and Algore would be constantly assuring us that 'everything possible is being done to track down those responsible for 9/11. Emboldened by a tepid response to 9/11, OBL would be doing what thugs always do- pushing harder at us. Possibly another high-visibility attack on American soil.
Government maditory prayer 5 times a day to Allah!
Mom would be complaining on how best to get gravy stains out of her Burka.
All internet pages converted into Islam
There's a few starters...
Instead of being on the road to recovery, the economy would be in the tank, due to stupid policies.
Alec Baldwin would still be living in the United States.
3 or 4 fewer idiotic movies coming out.
Well, after 9/11 Gore would have officially put large scale military action off the table.
You could expect an American commando team to have been sent into Afghanistan that would be doomed to failure.
Then he probably would tried bribing Afghanistan to turn over AQ which wouldn't have worked.
Finally he would have launch missile and air strikes that would have had little or no effect on AQ.
On the domestic side, a President Gore would have pursued a much more restrictive and much broader version of the Partriot Act.
Further, he would have not rounded up everyone with any sort of ties to AQ or Islamist terror as Bush did, and therefore the anthrax mailings could have continued to this day. Perhaps though, after spending more then a year in a failed search for a domestic mailer, with ever more letters turning up the FBI would be forced to finally look at the terrorism angle - but that is far from certain.
With AQ looking like the strong horse now in the Middle East, one coudl expect increased terror against our nominal allies like SA and Egypt. Both would probably fall. At best Pakistan would enter a partial alliance with the Islamists, at worst their would be a full alliance following a successful assassination attempt on Musharraf.
At home, there would have been several major terror attacks after 9/11. Perhaps using the anthrax drop tank that AQ seems to have have acquired from Hussein.
In mid to late 2004 there would be several major terror attacks designed to get the US to fold further, and the likelihood of SA leading an oil embargo on the US unless we agree to permanently abandon Israel. And then after Gore caved more demands.
Whoever the Reps then ran in 2004 would win but much like FDR in 1941 we would be starting so far behind the curve that the military action required would be much more difficult - almost certainly involving both sides using nuclear weapons.
The United States would have already paid out trillions to a Nigerian firm specializing in "reparations"... an investment...he would later claim he was the first to be contacted about this risky scheme to bring millions of US$ back to America ... after hearing of the scam Vice-President Daschle was deeply troubled
The terrorists would not have attacked the WTC, but it would have melted down from Global Warming.
Tipper would win American Idol.
Hillary would, weekly, send him invitations to meet at Fort Marcy Park.
He would try to meet her, but the Segway would run out of electricity before he could get there.
Arsnic in the drinking water would not be an issue.
You local electric utility would be hounded by the EPA.
Afghanistan would still be run by the Talliban and Saddam would still be playing hide and seek with the UN