Was There an Alternative?

I would go one step further. If Gore were president 9/11 wouldn't have happened in the first place. There were plenty of opportunit­ies for the FBI to catch these guys and the outgoing Clinton administra­tion told Bush that the #1 security priority should be Bin Laden. But the Bush people were interested in things like missile defense and they also had a reflexive reaction to ignore any advise from Clinton. A Gore administra­tion would have almost certainly caught most if not all of the terrorists before they had a chance to put their plan in action.
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