Liberty Strikes Back
Chapter 2 — The Debate
THE DEBATE
October 11, 2000
One year earlier, Vice President Gore and Governor Bush debated for the office of President, knowing that the winner would determine the course of events for at least the next four years, perhaps longer. It was in the second debate that then-Governor Bush attacked Gore’s foreign policy stance by characterizing it as nation building, stating without prompt, “If we don’t stop sending our troops around the world, uhh, in nation-building missions, then we’re gonna have a serious…