Not sure whether this is fake news or an event from an earlier visit …
US seals F-15 warplane deal with Qatar amid naval visit | DW |
A Qatari diplomat posted a social media photo showing Wednesday’s signing ceremony involving
Qatar’s defense minister Khalid al-Attiyah and US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.
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“The $12-billion sale will give Qatar a state-of-the-art capability and increase security cooperation
and inter-operability between the United States and Qatar,” the Pentagon said in a statement.
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The Pentagon on Thursday also deployed two warships to waters off Qatar.
Mattis formerly oversaw US Central Command whose forward operating base is the vast al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar – a hub for the international campaign against the so-called “Islamic State” (IS) in Syria and Iraq.
“Our militaries are like brothers. America’s support for Qatar is deep-rooted and not easily influenced by political changes,” said an unnamed Qatari official in Doha, according to the news agency Reuters.
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
During my recent trip to the Middle East I
stated that there can no longer be funding
of Radical Ideology. Leaders pointed to Qatar – look!
2:06 PM - 6 Jun 2017Qatar says fighter jets deal shows deep U.S. support | NY Daily News – Reuters |
Official Source at #MOFA: the Perpetrators of the Electronic Piracy against #QNA website will be prosecuted! [May 24, 2017]
BooMan’s fp story …
○ Cleaning Up Trump’s Qatar Mess
My recent diaries …
○ Trump Just Strengthened the House of Saud in the Gulf Region
○ After Tehran Attack: Solidair with the People of Iran
Pentagon wants to set up a Sunni state in Eastern Syria joined with Iraq’s Anbar province …
○ To Defeat Islamic State, America Wants to Reawaken Al Anbar (Nov. 2014)
○ Tehran, Washington set for proxy clash on Syrian-Iraqi border
Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) captured the Turaibil crossing with Jordan and the al-Walid crossing with Syria.
○ US With Both Feet in Syrian Quagmire (June 2014)
Also heard on the news this morning that we are sending another 4,000 troops to Afghanistan. Why? Just because?
Our only national interest in Afghanistan was getting Osama bin Laden and we killed him in Pakistan, so why?
We don’t have money for healthcare for our retirees, but we have money and blood to waste in Afghanistan for no discernible reason?
Also heard Russia killed the head of ISIS in Syria. I guess they did this in between hacking elections. /snark
Since Syria is a Russian satellite and they seem to have the war in hand and all Assad’s opponents are religious fanatics that hate the West, what the bleeding Hell are we doing there?
These interventions (wars by another name) make even less sense than Vietnam.
Oui, you and I have vastly different views on war as a national instrument and the military in general, but this is straight out of Alice in Wonderland. Why isn’t the whole damn USA saying “WHY?”?