Posted on 12/08/2019 6:09:30 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Did we learn literally no lessons at all from 9/11? – Mark Steyn often rhetorically asks whether America is too stupid to survive. It’s a valid question after this week’s terrorist attack in Pensacola, Florida by a Saudi Arabian pilot who was receiving training at the U.S. Naval station there. It is frankly stunning to many that a pilot from Saudi Arabia, of all places, was actually being trained by the U.S. Navy 18 years after the events of 9/11/2018.
Let’s all remember that 15 of the 19 Al Qaeda terrorists who, according to the official government story, perpetrated the 9/11 attacks that killed 3,000 people, were from Saudi Arabia. Let’s also remember that the terrorists who supposedly flew the planes that day had received their pilot training not in their home countries, but right here in the United States. And not just anywhere in the United States, but in Florida, at the Boeing 727 simulator at SimCenter in Opa-Locka, the FlightSafety Academy in Vero Beach, and the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach.
So now, here we sit 18 years later, and our own Navy personnel are still training members of the Saudi air force at NAS Pensacola. It’s as if the U.S. decided to train Japanese pilots 18 years after Pearl Harbor.
Here’s the result: Three people dead, eight others wounded, and six more Saudi nationals detained for questioning after three of them were seen filming the shootings.
Pathetically, despite the fact that the terrorist had tweeted out an anti-America screed the day prior to the attacks and had hosted a dinner party earlier in the week where he and three others watched videos of mass shootings, the Pentagon yesterday said it just can’t find it within itself to say that this was an act of terrorism.
But Congressman Matt Gaetz, whose district includes Pensacola, was not so shy, saying that “This was not an act of workplace violence, this was not a random murder, this was an act of premeditated terrorism against our country and military on our soil.”
Former Florida Governor and current Senator Rick Scott expressed his deep concerns about the existence of this training program that includes Saudi military personnel, demanding that the Pentagon conduct a formal review:
Rick Scott ✔ @SenRickScott I'm very concerned that the shooter in Pensacola was a foreign national training on a US base.
Today, I’m calling for a full review of the US military programs to train foreign nationals on American soil. We shouldn't be providing military training to people who wish us harm.
View image on Twitter 2,094 3:29 PM - Dec 6, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 1,248 people are talking about this “We shouldn’t be providing military training to people who wish us harm.” Oh, do tell. But the Navy told Fox News that most of the participants in this training program are from Saudi Arabia:
The majority of the hundreds of foreign aviation students who have participated in the program are from Saudi Arabia, the Navy said. The Naval training program has about 1,500 pilots in total.
In other words, we are basically training Saudi Arabia’s entire air force. And a spokesman for the Navy had this to say about the program back in 2017:
That program is aimed at “immersing international students in our U.S. Navy training and culture” to help “build partnership capacity for both the present and for the years ahead,” Cmdr. Bill Gibson, the center’s officer in charge, said in 2017. “These relationships are truly a win-win for everyone involved.”
So, the Navy leadership is all proud of the fact that it has a program set up to train pilots from the country that was mainly responsible for the 9/11 attacks just 18 years ago. And the story gets even worse: This program has been in effect for 40 years, since 1979.
That means that no one in the Bush Administration, including his military leadership, had the presence of mind to question its advisability in the days following 9/11. It also means that all that lovely “capacity” and “relationship” building Cmdr. Gibson talks about had been going on for 22 years before the Saudi terrorists attacked our country on 9/11/2001.
This is madness. National insanity, plain and simple.
Maybe we are just too stupid to survive as a country.
That is all.
Yes.
No.
But America is too dishonest to survive.
What ends Freedom?
Lies.
YUP!
We’re dead already, we just haven’t fallen down. When Demonicrats can’t get away with anything and Roger Stone goes to prison for 20 years, we are the soviet union.
Not grassroots America.
I disagree with the premise.
The Saudi government was *not* mainly responsible for the 9/11 attacks.
The current government is working pretty hard to transform Saudi Arabia from fundamentalist Wahhabism; they are in a hot war with Yemen, and very close to being in a hot war with Iran.
You might notice that the 9/11 attackers had to come to the US to get their flight trainging from commercial sources.
They were not trained by the U.S. military.
Is DB too stupid to realize that the US guv was in on 9/11? Doesn’t mean we’re also stupid to be cozied up to the Saudis, including on our own military training bases.
Maybe we are just too stupid to survive as a country. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Not true. The political establishment is stupid. The American People in their majority are not stupid.
We are being saved by a nation of “deplorables” who cleave to the Constitution, who are making America Great Again.
The Stupid Americans are those who have Trump Derangement Syndrome, and who are dying the slow death of “transformational” socialist politics.They are desperate to regain power. We deplorables are putting them into the dust bin of history. That’s hardly stupid.
Not only will America survive, it will flourish like never before. Just stop the teeth gnashing and get on with it.
Notice...
at no time...
not even ONCE...
does the word “muslim” appear in this article.
The author rants about our leaders being unwilling or unable to use the word “terrorist”, yet he refuses to use the word “muslim”
Now YOU tell ME, “Is this country too stupid to survive?”
“ Let’s all remember that 15 of the 19 Al Qaeda terrorists who, according to the official government story, perpetrated the 9/11 attacks that killed 3,000 people, were from Saudi Arabia.”
Let’s remember?
We haven’t even yet admitted it.
Most New Yorkers I know have surrendered to Islam and will not discuss the facts.
The Nazis trained the masses to kill and to sacrifice themselves. Same for mohammedums
It’s as if the U.S. decided to train Japanese pilots 18 years after Pearl Harbor.
That would've been 1959, and we were probably training the air wing of the Japanese Self-defense force. That said, DB's point stands- at least the Japanese surrendered at our feet 4 years after the Pearl Harbor attack.
An entire article, and no mention of “muslims.” That’s the true elephant in the room.
BUT, I do not believe it is too late to salvage part of it, #TEXIT
Yes, and again I say yes!! After these evil bastards brought down the twin towers our globalist Bush called them a religion of peace and welcomed them with open arms! I’ll never forget watching the evil satanic Muslim immigrants celebrating the destruction of the twin towers HERE on our OWN EFFIN SOIL!! So yes, we’re stupid for letting these demonic globalist socialists evil power-hungry RINOS and communist liberals lead us by the nose over the cliff!!
That was answered on Usurpation Day, January 20, 2009.
We allowed BOTH parties to abrogate the Constitution because too few people know what natural born citizen means.
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