Nor should American universities send their faculty and students to a nation complicit in terrorism that has taken the lives of many Americans as well as Israelis.Turkey's role in NATO must also be reevaluated. The only thing keeping that country from their own Arab spring or people's revolution is the presence of the US military base.Of course the US will not (publicly) speak out against Qatar when it has its air-force comfortably cushioned in the suburbs of Doha and has numerous US expats ensconced in its education,gas, oil and hospitality sectors?How can the US speak out against or oppose Qatar's support for Hamas and ISIS when it involves itself in providing "aid" to numerous anti-government forces in Syria and in many other countries, under its so-called "fight against terrorism" and/or in its efforts to spread democracy?Qatar will continue to run with the hares and hunt with the hounds.....it's lavish sponsorship of Hamas etc., continually being treated with benign disregard.The author correctly focuses on Turkey's untrustworthiness as well as its opportunistic and dangerous policies in the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean. Yes, I repeat 300,000Why should we sell 11 BILLION dollars of military hardware to this country?Let us NOT FORGET that QATAR is the main financial sponsor of HAMAS.When the Obama administration is gone, then we can have a top to bottom re-appraisal of our security and defense situation, and these grievous errors corrected. It is entirely fair, therefore, to describe Qatar as a criminal regime, guilty of accessory to mass murder.In some ways Turkey is even worse. Turkey is one of "The Top Players in Foreign Agent Lobbying," indicates a study authorized by writers from ProPublica and the Sunlight Foundation (Aug., 2009). Qatar’s ties to Islamists are also a source of U.S. unease. To watch videos of the event, click Already in the mid-1990s, a playful riddle circulated among foreign-policy types: In the aftermath of the Soviet collapse, which are the world's two great powers? Moscow paid them very well for their collaboration.
Qatar's backing for Syrian rebels widely regarded as jihadi militants might appear a diplomatic liability at a time when global alarm about al Qaeda is on the rebound. It added that the decision was a "violation of its sovereignty" and that it would work to ensure that it would not affect citizens and residents.A previous diplomatic rift had developed in 2014, when Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain pulled out their diplomats, claiming that Qatar supported armed groups. “Qatar is to take decisions, and follow a path, of its own.” In the case of Syria, diplomats and sources close to the government say it is unlikely to abandon groups that are among the toughest in fighting President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, no matter the flak its policy takes from both allies and enemies. There is an abundance of evidence showing that Turkey has been a disloyal and an unreliable US ally and that Ankara and its US-paid agents have made over-inflated assumptions about Turkey's strategic value to the United States (Gene Rossides, ed., 2011; Gene Rossides, 2014).Following are some examples of Turkey's unreliability as a US and western ally:During World War I, the Ottoman Turks fought against the United States and its allies. Classic editor History Talk (5) This page contains a list of all the enemies encountered in the Kingdom Rush franchise. This support includes financial, diplomatic, media and even the provision of weapons that deliberately target Israeli civilians from behind Palestinian civilians who are used as human shields. Its overall score has decreased by 0.3 point due to a drop in the government integrity score. Apart from attacking Israel, the Turks displayed aggression towards another important US ally and friend, Greece.Turkey's hostility towards Greece continues to this day based on Ankara's outrageous claims to Greek islands in the Aegean.The United States does not need to be a friend to Turkey nor does it need Turkey's help to carry out its military objectives or to protect its interests. Qatar’s economic freedom score is 72.3, making its economy the 31st freest in the 2020 Index. It can also buy terrorist groups such as Hamas. He said he did not know why. Edit. At a time when Sunni militants are resurgent in the Middle East and North Africa, and thousands of foreigners are fighting with al Qaeda aligned groups in Syria, many Gulf Arab officials perceive Qatar’s continued support of Islamists as reckless.