Well, the US Navy base commander is trying to find some answers as to how a student pilot, a Saudi national, was able to bring a loaded pistol into a classroom and open fire on his fellow students. Hmmmm. I think the commander's career just took a turn for the worse. He'll be forced to retire early, and will leave the service with a cloud over his career, as there should be. This is again, a failure of leadership. Just as in the lead up to 9/11, the signs were ignored before the event. In the 9/11 case, the Saudi perps were being trained to pilot certain aircraft -in the United States. They paid the bill and nobody gave it much thought, even the State Dept. and F.B.I. looked the other way because they were---SAUDIs, thought to be our friends.
It's time to put Saudi Arabia on the Watch List of suspected countries that support terrorism, right up there with Iran, North Korea, Syria, Lebanon, Algeria, et cetera.
Pity the poor family who sent their son or daughter to flight training in Pensacola where our Dept. of Defense thinks it's a good idea to open the classrooms to those from countries that support and export terrorists. The pain is unimaginable for them. The terrorist in Florida has been dispatched to his heaven, which we would call Hell. Perhaps King Salman will offer some oil money to pay the families of victims. But let us not forget: right now, all of Saudi Arabia is thinking about the IPO of AramCo, the state owned and run oil company whose shares will be listed Wednesday, the 11th of Dec.
So, how long do we continue to support a government that dispatches teams of murderers whose job is to extinguish the life of a journalist accused of criticizing the government? Is anybody listening in Washington, or is the election cycle all-consuming these days? Somebody needs to pay attention, but that's asking a bit much.
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