[Bobby777]

thanks ... I definitely don't mean to be one of those "why is this breaking news cops" but I wondered why Drudge also thought it was so significant ... by my count we could end up with 7 carriers or so in that region as well ... not to mention Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar ...

[rogue yam]

Militarily, it is not mission-critical. But it says a heck of a lot about what the Saudi rulers see when they read the writing on the wall.

[Conservababe]

We have a base of operations in Qatar, built during the last year that made the the Saudies irrevelant to the war.

I guess they finally smelled the coffee. LOL