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…