Scott Mann

And I think for me as a global war on terror veteran who saw 9-11, who lost his Ranger buddy in the Pentagon that day, and who lost a lot of friends in the war that followed,

It just seems criminal to me that we would put ourselves back in this position again where communities are so at risk and we would not have responsible, at least have responsible conversations on how to mitigate at this point.

Instead, it is literally head in the sand, let's focus on the economy, which I get it, but it's not gonna matter if we've exposed ourselves to what I think we've exposed ourselves to.

And no one's gonna care about those other things

when the reckoning comes for that.

It's gonna all be the next 9-11 commission.

How did this happen?

With a bunch of congressmen harrumphing on what should have been done and who knew what when.

And to have that happen twice in 30 years, it's just, it's disgusting, frankly.

I think there's a lot of precedent happening right now for state actors to use non-state surrogates.

You don't have to look far to see that happening.

Look at Hamas.

Look at Hezbollah.

Look at the Tariki Taliban.

You know, look, it's happening all over the place.

Like, there's precedent for this.

This is not some kind of, you know, theory that state actors using non-state surrogates is a very, very viable theory, especially if those non-state surrogates are well-established, highly effective, combat-trained Islamist terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda, ISIS, K, you know, who have a...

a multi-sensory narrative to undo our way of life.

It's a perfect match.

And to think that that's not gonna happen and that it is not in the near future something that's gonna go down, I just think it's diluted.