SAUDI newspaper reports 202 Saudis sent to US for AIRLINE MECHANIC TRAINING!!!

Jeff Katz 1210 AM (Philadelphia)

[Captainpaintball]

Jeff Katz just reported a Saudi Arabian airline official expressing "with pride" that 202 Saudis coming to US for airline mechanic training. I give up.

[NeoCaveman]

I hear ya. We are screwed.

[SBeck]

It would be nice to know where they are going.

[robowombat]

Those who graduate in the top 5% of the class will be offered an elective in flying (but not landing) large multi-engined aircraft.

[kellynla]

yea right...I wouldn't let these guys within two hundreds yards of my johnson much less an airplane...forgetaboutit....what did we fall off the turnip wagon here or what????

[AmericanInTokyo]

Tsk Tsk Tsk. Boys! Don't you be indulging in "hate speech" or attacking America's 'diversity' here, you hear?

[Spruce]

Un-Firggin-Believable! State Dept. has their collective heads up their butts! What's it gonna take?

[Mr. Mojo]

did we fall off the turnip wagon here or what????

Well put. We indeed fell off the turnip wagon, and we seem to be proud of this state of affairs.

[kellynla]

wait til Jay Leno hears about this...there's enough material there for one night's whole monologue...

[NeoCaveman]

Don't you be indulging in "hate speech" or attacking America's 'diversity' here, you hear?

The PC body count is 3,000. I guess it has to go higher before the sheeple wake up.

[Wurlitzer]

"Jeff Katz just reported a Saudi Arabian airline official expressing "with pride" that 202 Saudis coming to US for airline mechanic training. I give up."

This makes sense actually. See they already have the shop rags and the fan belts on their heads. Perfect for a mechanic.

[Mr. Mojo]

What's it gonna take?

It's going to take a terrorist attack on the American people that makes 9/11 look like a relatively insignificant event by comparison, I'm afraid.

[SBeck]

Repeat to oneself ad nauseum: "We have a strong, good relationship with Saudi Arabia, they are our friends, they speak better English than us, we enjoy them."

Anyway that's what our lickspittle of a President says.

[AmericanInTokyo]

The idiocy test for things like these is actually quite simple.

It goes like this:

"How would this idea or this development of_____________________ go over with the American people the morning of September 12th, 2001?"

If there would have been an OUTRAGE on that morning, chances are whatever is being proposed is still dangerous, ludicrous and idiotic.

There was, after all, a gentle period of a few (morbidly) beautiful months in America after The Attacks when everything seem 'common sense' once again across the land, and "PC thinking" and such other nonsense had been boldly stamped into the gutter and didn't dare emit a squeak!

[LADY J]

What else can be done to garner votes for the politicians!!!!!!!!!

Lord - let us lose the mind-set that if we are fair and good to others - they will reciprocate!!

[WayneM]

What's it gonna take?

I figure 2 or 3 more attacks with tens of thousands killed. Then we as a country MAY start having some second thoughts about the way we currently accept anyone and anything.

BTW - I wonder how much money this airline maintenance school has paid to grease the palms of our elected officials?

[AmericanInTokyo]

The pneumatic door to the mind of the American people and their leaders has fully returned to the 'Stupid' position.

[sam_paine]

Ok. Here I go again.

Where do the majority of Saudi Aerospace (commercial and military) widgets come from?? (Boeing/Lockheed.) So where do you train them to keep them flying? (Boeing/Lockheed maybe?)

Do we have any links to someplace where this story is written in a bit more detail?

[Prodigal Son]

Old news actually. I would note too that the terrorist hijackers on 9/11 didn't work for an airline. This sort of thing is pretty much routine. Where else do you think they're going to get this training? Samoa? I understand the concern, but these individuals are on a roster, they are employed with a big company, they are easy to track. The ones you have to be worried about are the one that come in ones and twos- students, asylum seekers, ordinary immigrants... They come, they violate their visas, they stay and plan. Not all, but enough.

[NeoCaveman]

The pneumatic door to the mind of the American people and their leaders has fully returned to the 'Stupid' position.

And it did so rapidly.