Qatar says it could intervene militarily in Syria

Al-Aribya ^ | 10-21-2015 | Al Aribya

[Psalm 144]

“I’m surprised he stayed out of it so long.”

Russia is brittle, with a declining population. I don’t think he is there because he wants to be, but because he feels he must. As it stands, the EU and Washington D.C. are ideologically committed to erasing nation states as anything beyond administrative units, as our fifty states are now. Their strategy seems to be to erase the ME nations and make some ersatz Caliphate.

The only two remaining nation states that can possibly resist such a juggernaut are Russia and China. China hasn’t weighed in very heavily, yet. But they will.

[Trumpinator]

Qatar has lots of Shias that can be stirred up...

[Psalm 144]

A ‘look at me’ stunt while the Saudis move?

All of this upheaval, from Sweden to Syria, seems to benefit no one at all except the Sunni Gulf States.

[free from tyranny]

If we had a President Trump......now would be the time to CIA a coup in Mexico and send all the illegals home to rebuild their crap hole country.
Be sure to destroy all their industrial capacity too!!!
Be sure to lather them up with IMF loans before the party starts and then squeeze them once the shooting starts and their peso craps the bed!!!!
And out of the oven comes a client state!!!
Probably won't happen for two reasons:
1. Trump is a corporate tool?
2. Corporate interests want a failed industrial state for cheap labor.

[Trumpinator]

The Western Europeans like France and the UK were hot to overthrow Assad like they were Qaddafi - and dragged Obama into it to be fair - because they also want that Gulf pipepline through Syria because of Russia using oil and gas as leverage against them. That still to me is the theory that makes most sense.

[thackney]

You could fit Qatar inside Syria about twenty times over. => Delusions of islamo-grandiur.

And you could fit Syria's GDP inside Qatar's about 46 times over.

Land mass isn't that important in projecting "power" outside your borders.

[Zhang Fei]

I expect this means air support. Qatar's Air Force:

Units

• No. 1 Fighter Wing

• No. 7 Air Superiority Squadron – Dassault Mirage 2000

• 9 single-seat Mirage 2000-5EDA
• 3 2000-5DDA trainers

• No. 11 Close Support Squadron – Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet

• No. 2 Rotary Wing

• No. 6 Close Support Squadron – Aérospatiale Gazelle
• No. 8 Anti-Surface Vessel Squadron – Westland Commando Mk 3
• No. 9 Multi-Role Squadron – Westland Commando Mk 2

• Qatar Amiri Flight – Boeing C-17 Globemaster III

As of January 1993, all the air force's aircraft were based at Doha International Airport.^[7]

[varon]

“Quick, make us some clocks.”

He'll do better than that. He'll provide them the bigger brother of the "suitcase bomb". The "attache case bomb" consisting of parts from a disassembled electric can opener attached by Crazy Glue to the interior of the attache case............

[Billthedrill]

Their entire army is listed at 8500 men, and they won’t be sending them all. It wouldn’t even fill a section in a soccer stadium. Better they should hire the job done.

[McGruff]

“Petroleum and liquefied natural gas are the cornerstones of Qatar’s economy and account for more than 70% of total government revenue, more than 60% of gross domestic product, and roughly 85% of export earnings. “

Putin needs to control more oil.

[tcrlaf]

“This means to me that Russia is slaughtering Qatar’s ISIS project.”

Well, if they want to save ISIS, they had better hurry.

Lots of Twitter chatter about a BIG Syrian/Russian air raid on Aleppo late this afternoon local time, that really hurt them.

Supposedly, they are abandoning Aleppo “by the hundreds”, and heading north toward Turkey, or west toward Raqqa.

Who knows if it is all true, or even partly, but the fact remains that ISIS is hurt.

[FreeReign]

Qatar says it could intervene militarily in Syria

Now that Clock Boy is there, they can do it in a timely manner.

[kabar]

The Qatar Armed Forces are the military forces of Qatar. The country maintains a modest military force of approximately 11,800 men, including an army (8,500), navy (1,800) and air force (1,500). Qatar's defence expenditures were a total of $1.913 billion, about 1.5% of the national GDP, as of 2010 according to the SIPRI.

[GOPJ]

Country’s are moving toward the alpah... we’ve lost the ME>..

[Grampa Dave]

Another good reason to keep our men and women in uniform out of the insane middle east.

[BwanaNdege]

Here we go again, folks...

"Paging Archduke Ferdinand!

Paging Archduke Ferdinand!"

[BwanaNdege]

Let me get my co-workers home first, please.

And family members working there, too.

[BwanaNdege]

Anybody see our President numb nuts doing anything about this?

Oh, yes! He's practicing his solidarity with Ireland by running around the Oval Office dancing a Jig.

(Can I use that word? Is it RACIST?)

/sarc

[lavaroise]

Indeed, these fools are going to give a future Saddam an excuse to invade Qatar.

[Truth29]

That is a lot of specific information. If you get any more, please post it.