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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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To: Kaslin
Bob Barr is the finest Republican Middle Eastern money can buy.

Yemen needs a Republican, too - and I hear Paul Ryan is on the market. :)

21 posted on 04/11/2018 1:18:23 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: fieldmarshaldj

That building is referred to there as “the Condom”

Qatar is...interesting. It’s a muzloid state, but pretty open as far as it goes. Alcohol while illegal, is not unavailable.

Petty street crime is zero. I walked in most neighborhoods and felt completely safe.

It is definitely a two-tiered society. The uber-wealthy (Qatari’s) and the essentially “slave” labor that they import for $400/mo to work the apparatus from India, Pakistan, Nepal, and the Phillipenes. There are police in most places and secret police everywhere. They simply do not want bombs going off and other assorted terrorist activities happening there.

They may finance ISIS and others....it is to keep them “terroristing” elsewhere. Sort of a ransom payment, like welfare is here.


22 posted on 04/11/2018 1:19:26 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: Kaslin

Interesting buildings.
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/images/105431/65/1054316517.jpg


23 posted on 04/11/2018 2:24:28 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Kaslin

The article is a bunch of B.S.

1. The Taliban have no better friend in the Middle East than the leader of Qatar.

2. Qatar is where all the Middle East intelligence agencies, including from Iran, have probably more agents and resources per mile than anywhere else outside their home country - perfect for keeping track of everything U.S. forces there are doing and saying.

3. The Islamist militias in Syria in the “Syrian Opposition” had great funding from Qatar.

4. Al Jazeera, often the public mouthpiece for Muslim fundamentalists is headquartered in Qatar.


24 posted on 04/11/2018 2:25:27 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: dfwgator

Yes! Muslim countries are US allies as long as we serve their interests. As soon as they could, they would happily destroy every western nation and subjugate all to Islam.


25 posted on 04/11/2018 2:41:23 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. ~ Hosea 8:7)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

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

I was offered a job in Doha for a year at a very high rate of pay. There wasn’t even an interview. I had a skill set the company couldn’t find anywhere and this guy from London called me about the position.

While we were discussing travel and living arrangements, I asked him what my last name was. He told me. I paused and said again, “what’s my last name?” Again he told me, then went back to traveling arrangements. I finally asked him, “take a moment and think about my last name.” He paused and said, “Oh, this won’t work. Sorry to bother you.”

There was no way EQ the Jew was getting on a plane to Qatar.


26 posted on 04/11/2018 2:56:51 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (What is a Blue City? First world cities run by third world politicians.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Wise move.


27 posted on 04/11/2018 2:57:58 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Kaslin

Get Texas A&M out of Qatar.

28 posted on 04/11/2018 3:10:25 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Combat_Liberalism; All

If I remember right, Turkey didn’t let us use Incirlik in the second Gulf War, and I am not sure about Gulf War 1 either.


29 posted on 04/11/2018 3:28:33 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: Combat_Liberalism; All

If I remember right, Turkey didn’t let us use Incirlik in the second Gulf War, and I am not sure about Gulf War 1 either.


30 posted on 04/11/2018 3:31:24 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Smart move.


31 posted on 04/11/2018 4:19:16 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: dfwgator

Even the Palestinians can’t count on muslims to be allies.

They are animals.


32 posted on 04/11/2018 4:40:27 PM PDT by Celerity
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Israel is the only friend in the region.

Everyone else would cut our throats, and Israel’s, in half a second.


33 posted on 04/11/2018 5:09:30 PM PDT by lurk
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Qatar is a Wahabbi state. It sponsors training of Wahabbis/Salafis from the MoslemBrotherhood to thejihadis in Syria, nigeria, etc.

If they are America's Allies, then God help America....

34 posted on 04/11/2018 11:39:23 PM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Kaslin

Maybe 3 or 4. One is about as obvious as can be.


35 posted on 04/12/2018 3:59:04 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: Mr. Jeeves

That’s a “burn.”

I’ll bet if they throw in an extra rial, he’ll regrow the beard.


36 posted on 04/12/2018 4:00:59 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: Ouderkirk

Sounds like it’s time for Qatar to share in the love that we get here in the U.S.


37 posted on 04/12/2018 4:03:00 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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