October 12, 2005

Gore Says, "I'd Be Different"

Woulda, coulda, shoulda. Al Gore was quoted in Sweden as saying he has no intention of ever running for president again, but if he had won in 2000, things would be different.

"We would not be trying to control and intimidate the news media. We would not be routinely torturing people," Gore said. "We would be a different country."

He's right. We would be a different country. In fact, America would look something like this...

That's because Al Gore would most likely have continued the foreign policy practices of his predecessor, Bill Clinton, which consisted of "feel good" directives because Clinton wanted to be everybody's friend. Clinton, who did little or nothing about the first WTC bombing, the USS Cole, the Khobar Towers, the U.S. embassy bombings in Tanzania and Nairobi. The lack of U.S. response to these outrages served to encourage the Islamic radicals.

Look at it this way: does the class bully stop harrassing the smaller kids who do nothing to defend themselves? Of course not. He's emboldened because he can get away with it. In fact, the attacks on the other kids usually escalate.

If Al Gore had won in 2000, he would have stood atop the rubble of the World Trade Center after 9/11, had a good cry on national television, and would have vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice. Maybe he would have put a few more FBI and CIA agents on the case, and maybe a few paltry arrests would have been made. But, that would be it.

And the terrorists, knowing they got away with it, would go for another target. Perhaps Washington D.C., since the brave passengers on Flight 93 foiled those plans, and the bomb at the Pentagon didn't kill nearly as many people as it "should" have. And, they would continue with their bombings here and places like Bali, London and Jakarta because they have this notion that radical Islam should rule the world. Al Gore, with his PC sensibilities, would not stand in their way because that's judging someone using your own moral compass as a guide--and according to PC gospel, that is wrong.

Afghanistan would still be under the thumb of the Taliban. John Walker Lindh, had he not been killed in battle, would still be fighting against his countrymen with the Taliban. We'd have more people like John Muhammed and his stepson terrorizing people in the name of Allah. Terrorist cells here in the U.S. would go undiscovered, their members hatching plots to bring the Great Satan down from within. Saddam Hussein would still be in power, intimidating the Iraqi media, and routinely torturing and killing Kurds and other political enemies as he groomed his evil sons to do the same. France, Germany and Russia would still be making money as a result of their ties to Iraqi oil that supposedly we're lusting after.

Meanwhile, hurricanes and other natural disasters would still hit, even though Gore would have jumped right on that Kyoto Protocol bandwagon. The national media would be fawning over the president, and celebrities would continue to receive coveted invitations to dinner at the White House and a stay in the Lincoln Bedroom. Gore would do his best to raise taxes in order to fund all sorts of socialistic schemes, and the world would love us because we'd be marching to the beat of the U.N. drum instead of our own sovereign drum.

(Obviously this is all speculation. Again, woulda, coulda, shoulda.)

Yes, America would definitely be different under Al Gore. But would it be better off?

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