"mg" wrote:
"Mike Marron" wrote:

And you still haven't answered my question. One more time, are you
saying that the USAF is exempt from sharing any blame for 9/11?

I will answer it. Absolutely the Air Force is blameless.

Fine. But I couldn't possibly disagree more.

The USAF does not (did not) defend the US from its own civilian airliners. Duh!

You can bet your sweet bippy that the USAF is shadowing some U.S.
airliners NOW.

It was a failure of the INS, FBI, FAA and other organizations who allowed the
situation to develop.

Doubtful even the military brass in the Pentagon would agree with that
statement and would readily accept some of the blame for 9/11.

To blame the Air Force is like blaming the fire department for not stopping
an arsonist.

Poor analogy. The Air Force is not entirely to blame for what happened
to 9/11, but it's not absolutely blameless either.

It was there to put the fire out (endless CAP mission ever since),
but it could not have prevented it.

Given better intelligence, the USAF could have easily prevented it.

Or why not blame the Army for not having a AAA battery stationed in NY or DC.
Or why not blame the Navy for not having a ship on the Potomac or in NY
harbor that could have prevented it.

Actually, you're absolutely right. Why not blame the Army or Navy?

In what far fetched way could the USAF have prevented 9/11?

A preemptive strike, perhaps? Recall the Israeli attack on the Osiraq
nuclear powerplant near Baghdad back in 1981.