Was Iraq inevitable, regardless of whether it was a D or R in the White House? Or, would he have resisted and doubled down in Afghanistan?
Was Iraq inevitable, regardless of whether it was a D or R in the White House? Or, would he have resisted and doubled down in Afghanistan?
Probably not because his state department / CIA types were not the neocons. Still monsters, though.
There's also something to be said for deliberate IC incompetence re: 9/11 that was only helped by that neocon group. 9/11, of course, being the pretext for barely-related wars of aggression and a massive ballooning of IC funding and power. No 9/11, no War in Afghanistan. No prepared neocon response to such a "Pearl Harbor" event, no War in Afghanistan.
The War in Iraq was also a neocon project by literally the same people who created and prosecuted the Gulf War. Gore would not have them in power. However, he would have surely continued the extremely capricious and violent sanctions regime that killed 500,000 children under Clinton, among other travesties.