Actually, I’ve said for years that the U.S. might have been better off with Gore in the White House on 9/11. He was always a calculating political @sshole, and if he thought it would have enhanced his stature in history he would have had no qualms about turning all of Afghanistan — and maybe Pakistan, too — into a smoking radioactive ruins. And the U.S. media would have given him all the political cover he would have needed, too.
In the days following 9-11, because it was liberal NYC that was hit, it was a Bush-hating, New York liberal, normally anti-nuke. who told me that we should turn Afghanistan into a sheet of radioactive glass.
Of course, with Gore as POTUS, we may not have had any nukes by the time the terrorists struck.