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Qatar: America's Biggest Little Ally in the Middle East
Townhall.com ^ | April 11, 2018 | Bob Barr

Posted on 04/11/2018 12:27:23 PM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 04/11/2018 12:27:23 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

I never trust any Muslim country. Your friend one day, your enemy the next.

Exhibit A: Turkey


2 posted on 04/11/2018 12:28:16 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

That is true.


3 posted on 04/11/2018 12:35:52 PM PDT by Kaslin (Politicians are not born; they are excreted -Civilibus nati sunt; sunt excernitur. (Cicero)
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To: Kaslin

“Reportedly, up to 500 Russian mercenaries fighting in Syria found this out the hard way in February”

The Russian bear can bite back.

The US needs to be careful.

Democratic prodding got Mueller his job. It might get an important American poisoned or an American ship blasted out of the water.


4 posted on 04/11/2018 12:36:39 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Kaslin

Bob Barr sounds like a lobbyist for Qatar. Check his bank accounts!


5 posted on 04/11/2018 12:36:47 PM PDT by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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To: Kaslin
It is true that Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood have organizational presences in Qatar...

Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood have "organizational presences" in the United States...

6 posted on 04/11/2018 12:38:47 PM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: Kaslin

Qatar = ISIS Bob, you DUMMY!


7 posted on 04/11/2018 12:40:06 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: Kaslin

Qatar is not an ally and as a muslim nation should never be trusted.

Qatar Congratulated ISIS after capture of Mosul.

Link: https://english.alarabiya.net/en/features/2018/04/02/Deputy-chairman-of-Qatar-s-Municipal-Council-hails-ISIS-suicide-attack-in-Iraq.html


8 posted on 04/11/2018 12:42:32 PM PDT by CharlesMartelsGhost
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To: Kaslin

Those skyscrapers look like giant dildos.


9 posted on 04/11/2018 12:42:57 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Ashtart columns.


10 posted on 04/11/2018 12:45:20 PM PDT by oldplayer
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To: Enchante

I have a friend who works in Qatar. He would tell you that this article is a heap of bullshit propaganda. You can bet a year’s salary that Barr is being paid handsomely by foreign interests to write this nonsense.


11 posted on 04/11/2018 12:46:07 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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To: CharlesMartelsGhost

I recall the Fraud and our tax dollars building his BFFs in the Taliban offices in Qatar.


12 posted on 04/11/2018 12:48:52 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: Kaslin

Ten years ago Qatar was the TDY from hell for people down range.


13 posted on 04/11/2018 12:53:22 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Free Republic has been reduced to primarily a gathering place for the inane, banal, and obtuse.)
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To: Brian Griffin

I agree.

I just heard on the news, a report that Trump has not yet decided, on how to respond to Syria.

I hope he gets this right. Russia is something to be careful about.

I realize we (America and the world) have been quite fortunate with Russia recently, but they are not happy with the current situation.

I just hope, he knows exactly what he is doing here.

I think he does. Just saying.


14 posted on 04/11/2018 12:54:31 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Not all of them, only the one.


15 posted on 04/11/2018 12:57:14 PM PDT by Kaslin (Politicians are not born; they are excreted -Civilibus nati sunt; sunt excernitur. (Cicero)
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To: Kaslin

How much coffee is in that giant thermos?

Our only real ally in the Middle East that we can trust is Israel.


16 posted on 04/11/2018 12:58:21 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Enchante
This is what it says on the front page of the Opinion columns

The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com.

I am saying you are entitled to your opinion, just as the author is entitled to his.

17 posted on 04/11/2018 1:02:20 PM PDT by Kaslin (Politicians are not born; they are excreted -Civilibus nati sunt; sunt excernitur. (Cicero)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Can’t trust them either. They have their own interests, understandably, that don’t necessarily align with ours. Certainly portions of the Israeli apparatus view the the US as a piggybank/military muscle/errand boy.


18 posted on 04/11/2018 1:08:33 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Flag burners can go screw -- I'm mighty PROUD of that ragged old flag)
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To: dfwgator

Amen to that.

I understand Incirlik in Turkey is no longer usable by US military planes. Erdogan’s Turkey is in NATO but with our enemies in Syria. That may come up big in the next few days.


19 posted on 04/11/2018 1:12:41 PM PDT by Combat_Liberalism
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To: Kaslin

Your comment is perfectly irrelevant.

I am well aware that he and I are each entitled to our own opinions.

That does not make his pathetic brown nosing of the Qatar leadership plausible.


20 posted on 04/11/2018 1:18:00 PM PDT by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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