"John Keeney" wrote:
"Mike Marron" wrote:

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

Yes, with better intelligence the USAF could have preemptively targeted
Ossama.

Right. Of course, I said exactly that right from the get go!

But the Air Force would not have gathered the intelligence,
the Air Force would not have analyzed the intelligence and the Air
Force wouldn't have decided it sufficient to act upon.

Wrong. The Prez may have the final decision whether or not to
act, but in conjunction with other military services and national
agencies, Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
(ISR) specialists are heavily involved with counterterrorism
operations.