The Qatar "Crisis"

I asked an informed source about this "crisis" that seems to have recently erupted without warning. This is what I learned:

First of all, though there's some recent news which seems to be sparking this -- leaked documents showing cooperation between the UAE and Israel, leaked documents showing Qatar cozying up to Russia -- in fact, those are just shots being fired in an information operation war that has been going on for years. Those are not the cause of the tensions, just the recent signs that the Gulf States are no longer willing to paper over its problems with Qatar.

Although states like Saudi Arabia are frequently charged with inciting terrorism or permitting their citizens to fund terrorism, they are, at least officially, anti-terrorist-uprising/anti-Islamist-takeover, if only for reasons of self-preservation. States that align against destablilization by Islamists are Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Bahrain, and Kuwait.

And Egypt, which was briefly given to the Islamists, gift-wrapped by Barack Obama.

Also Jordan, a fairly friendly country, and also, kind of secretly, Israel. The Gulf States do not openly brag about their cooperation with Israel, and Israel keeps it quiet so as not to embarrass them, but Israel is a quiet secret partner against the Islamists.

Meanwhile, there's a pro-Islamist slate of powers in the region: the once secular, now Islamist Turkey, the Mohammad Brotherhood (not an official power, but can't say Obama didn't try), and... Qatar, which openly supports Islamist movements itself, and propagandizes for them through its Al Jazeera network.

Meanwhile, not only is Qatar funding and fueling Sunni Islamist movements, but they're also cozying up to Obama's favorite country Iran, against which most of the Sunni Muslim world is allied.

Recently members of the Qatar royal family were kidnapped while in Iran, likely by Iranian agents or Iran-supported groups, and Qatar paid more than $700 million in ransom to have them back. This money is now in the hands of Iran and its various terror sects.

So the other members of the non-openly-Islamist-supporting coalition have demanded that Qatar announce it is one one side of the line or the other -- with the Islamist terrorists and Iran, or with the other Sunni Arab states -- and stop funding the terrorist-friendly Al Jazeera. Several countries have shut Al Jazeera's local offices down as part of this effort.

One more thing: We have an airbase in Qatar, and some claim that this is a major complicating factor. However, I'm told the UAE actually would like to host a US airbase, so if we were to isolate Qatar (and cause them to demand we depart their nation), it would be a temporary problem rather than a long-term strategic loss.

Also, expect the elements of the Iran Echo Chamber to begin pumping out pro-Qatar propaganda. Qatar is looking to have leftwing "think tanks" provide the same support that Iran got under Obama, and have just agreed to pump millions of dollars into the leftwing Brookings Institute.

Can a leftwing "institute" be corrupted by foreign terror 'n oil money? Only time will tell.

But the answer is Yes.

Posted by: Ace at 01:26 PM

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1 Muslim*** Brotherhood

Posted by: Doug at June 07, 2017 01:50 PM (6/K6S)

2 First? I read the content! I coulda been a contendah.

Posted by: The mass media can all EABOD at June 07, 2017 01:50 PM (+BoFT)

3 DAMMIT!

Posted by: The mass media can all EABOD at June 07, 2017 01:50 PM (+BoFT)

4 Corgi Notification Device has been activated.

Posted by: The mass media can all EABOD at June 07, 2017 01:51 PM (+BoFT)

5 Other Qatar crises:

1: no 'u' after the 'q' (see also Iraq, though some nations spell that 'Irak' IIRC)

B) Pronunciation: does it rhyme with 'guitar' or with 'gutter'?

Posted by: Lance McCormick at June 07, 2017 01:51 PM (u0s1P)

6 Roomy in here. My hash looks like "Bag of floppy teets."

Posted by: The mass media can all EABOD at June 07, 2017 01:52 PM (+BoFT)

7 Seriously, though, I've also read that the war in Yemen is a big deal re: Qatar too, though I can't say why and don't really care.

Short version: FRACKING.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at June 07, 2017 01:53 PM (u0s1P)

8 Qatar sauce is good on Popplers.

Posted by: Fishy Joe at June 07, 2017 01:53 PM (Re/7S)

9 Can a leftwing "institute" be corrupted by foreign terror 'n oil money? Only time will tell.

Paging Al Gore. Al Gore, to the Al-Jezeera courtesy phone, please.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at June 07, 2017 01:54 PM (u0s1P)

10 It's the Islam, Stupid.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 07, 2017 01:56 PM (9TK8E)

11 Paging Al Gore. Al Gore, to the Al-Jezeera courtesy phone, please.

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He's gotta get the global warming train running again- he'll brb

Posted by: BacktoGA at June 07, 2017 01:56 PM (QUl0c)

12 Nonsense! Vox informs me that different sects of Islam will never work together, so obviously Qatar and Iran would never work together.

Posted by: wooga at June 07, 2017 01:57 PM (3I7wr)

13 I can tell you without question there have been elements in Qatar funding extremist groups who have been fighting against us in Iraq and AFG. This has been a known fact for some time but is kept relatively quiet due to the fact we have sensitive military installations in Qatar and for the last 8 years the douche in the White House was tamping down any mention of their role through political minions.

Posted by: Marcus T, Playwright at June 07, 2017 01:57 PM (sNAef)

14 It would be nice had the US not been shackled by environmentalists and we could have pumped our own damn oil.

The Middle East would be about as significant as tribes fighting in Africa.

Posted by: publix at June 07, 2017 01:58 PM (hVd7x)

15 States that align against destablilization by Islamists are Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Bahrain, and Kuwait.

Posted by: Ace at 01:26 PM
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Wait a second! Didnt we learn through Wikileaks that Clinton and State Department were aware of the fact that Saudi Arabia was financing ISIS? Did that turn out to be wrong? Did I miss something?

Maybe I got this totally wrong, but to me it looks like we are supposed to do terror supporting Saudi Arabias dirty work by pressuring another terror supporting arab statelet. In the name of "anti-terrorism" of course.

Posted by: Nurse Ratched at June 07, 2017 01:59 PM (nFtUw)

16 Yes, and I hear that Jordan has thrown in with KSA, Egypt and them too.

Posted by: Koheleth at June 07, 2017 01:59 PM (fSf/G)

17 >>>B) Pronunciation: does it rhyme with 'guitar' or with 'gutter'?

i've heard it "Kah-TAR" and also "cutter."

In this vid, they pronounce it both ways, but one says it's "Katar" in English but "cutter" in Arabic.

https://vimeo.com/14490749

Posted by: ace at June 07, 2017 01:59 PM (8rNrN)

18 Fucking too complicated for me. Maybe I need more coffee.

Posted by: Max Power at June 07, 2017 02:00 PM (q177U)

19 Also, expect the elements of the Iran Echo Chamber to begin pumping out pro-Qatar propaganda.

Rhodes? Where we're going we don't need Rhodes!

Posted by: Doc Brown Trump at June 07, 2017 02:01 PM (3I7wr)

20 I read somewhere that the people of Jordan HATE the Jews
in Israel. Thanks to being told to hate Israelis since they were born I guess.

Posted by: Glenn John at June 07, 2017 02:01 PM (LilNs)

21 B) Pronunciation: does it rhyme with 'guitar' or with 'gutter'?

i've heard it "Kah-TAR" and also "cutter."

In this vid, they pronounce it both ways, but one says it's "Katar" in English but "cutter" in Arabic.

https://vimeo.com/14490749

Posted by: ace

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It's actually pronounced, "shit-hole."

Posted by: Dang at June 07, 2017 02:02 PM (8b+oT)

22 So Al Gore's money is not only oil money but terrorist oil money?

That's nice.

Posted by: alexthechick - now with extra sand! at June 07, 2017 02:02 PM (mf5HN)

23 Remind them how we often mispronounce it to rhyme with crater.

Posted by: DaveA at June 07, 2017 02:02 PM (FhXTo)

24 17 >>>B) Pronunciation: does it rhyme with 'guitar' or with 'gutter'?

i've heard it "Kah-TAR" and also "cutter."

In this vid, they pronounce it both ways, but one says it's "Katar" in English but "cutter" in Arabic.

https://vimeo.com/14490749

Arabic completely lacks vowels, I think, so "Cutter" would make sense in Arabic.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 07, 2017 02:02 PM (9TK8E)

25 I thought all the hip newsies pronounced it "gutter."

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at June 07, 2017 02:02 PM (ul9CR)

26 Look, when the nation's name sounds like "cutter", you kinda know it ain't on the level.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at June 07, 2017 02:03 PM (AM1GF)

27 Good riddance.

Let me explain how Arab society works - they will get away with whatever shit they can against infidels until you stop them. Then they will cry and moan about how unfairly they have been treated, and how they really aren't the bad guy. It is all just "negotiation" as far as they are concerned. ALWAYS watch what they do, and completely ignore what they say.

Make them. Feel. The Pain.

Same with the Palestinians - cut off all their outside funding, and you'll have a peace deal inside a week. Pay them for peace, and you will get peace. Pay them for war, and you'll get war.

Posted by: GenX at June 07, 2017 02:03 PM (UgF8H)

28 We have more than an airbase in Qatar, that's where SOCOM is.

Posted by: Rhymes with Covfefe at June 07, 2017 02:03 PM (1Rgee)

29 >>>Maybe I got this totally wrong, but to me it looks like we are supposed to do terror supporting Saudi Arabias dirty work by pressuring another terror supporting arab statelet. In the name of "anti-terrorism" of course.

well, yeah, it's hard to say Saudia Arabia is a "good guy," but it is possible they're less bad that Qatar.

Many are claiming Trump "provoked" this by telling the Gulf States they we would have their back against the Islamists, and that this is what spurred Saudia Arabia to issue an ultimatum to Qatar (to close down Al Jazeera, among other things qatar will never do).

as usual there is no great option in the Middle East.

but it does seem to me that Qatar is worse.

Posted by: ace at June 07, 2017 02:03 PM (8rNrN)

30 Meanwhile, not only is Qatar funding and fueling Sunni Islamist movements, but they're also cozying up to Obama's favorite country Iran... Recently members of the Qatar royal family were kidnapped while in Iran, likely by Iranian agents

With friends like that who needs enemies?

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at June 07, 2017 02:03 PM (kUmUV)

31 >>>5 I thought all the hip newsies pronounced it "gutter."

I thought that too. That's how I had been pronouncing it.

Posted by: ace at June 07, 2017 02:04 PM (8rNrN)

32 18>> Phrasing. And it's kinda intuitive; coffee isn't gonna be of any benefit.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 07, 2017 02:04 PM (E/U1b)

33 Ewok's postings are a comin fast and furious

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at June 07, 2017 02:04 PM (hMwEB)

34 It's pronounced "pahw-kee-stawhn"

Posted by: Insomniac, forgotten but not yet gone at June 07, 2017 02:04 PM (0mRoj)

35 Saudi Arabia is definitely not pro-Iran, and that is at least a place to start.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 07, 2017 02:04 PM (oVJmc)

36 There was a story in the Financial Times yesterday iirc that qatars payment of a huge ransom for third kidnapped hunting party to Iran caused the latest kerfuffle.

Posted by: Jean at June 07, 2017 02:05 PM (1VFvU)

37 anyway, you're about to see the Iran Echo Chamber reactivated on behalf of the Iran ally Qatar.

Posted by: ace at June 07, 2017 02:05 PM (8rNrN)

38 33 Ewok's postings are a comin fast and furious
Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at June 07, 2017 02:04 PM (hMwEB)

Phrasing!

Posted by: Insomniac, forgotten but not yet gone at June 07, 2017 02:05 PM (0mRoj)

39 We are supposed to pronounce it "gutter" to seem all smart and shit,right?

Posted by: steevy at June 07, 2017 02:05 PM (rmVvL)

40 Where did the Clintons send several billion dollars of donations?

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 07, 2017 02:05 PM (7ZVPa)

41 Can a leftwing "institute" be corrupted by foreign terror 'n oil money?

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They don't need to be. They're there already

Posted by: josephistan at June 07, 2017 02:05 PM (ANIFC)

42 So the 'ransom' is a BS payment to fund terror.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 07, 2017 02:05 PM (oVJmc)

43 "Many are claiming Trump "provoked" this by telling the Gulf States they we would have their back against the Islamists, and that this is what spurred Saudia Arabia to issue an ultimatum to Qatar (to close down Al Jazeera, among other things qatar will never do). "

If Trump did 'provoke' this, it is to his credit, IMO.

Posted by: Rhymes with Covfefe at June 07, 2017 02:06 PM (1Rgee)

44 the Brotherhood is actually the Muslim Brotherhood. Moslems hate it when you call them Mohammedans.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at June 07, 2017 02:06 PM (v8zB8)

45 I won't know how to pronounce it until John Kerry says it.

Posted by: buzzion at June 07, 2017 02:06 PM (z/Ubi)

46 I prefer the pronunciation "shithole". Although a lot of counties in that area of the world are all named that. While it might cause some confusion as which shithole I'm speaking about, it does tend to be an easier name to remember...

Posted by: Strobe at June 07, 2017 02:06 PM (gbWkA)

47 It's pronounced, "Jinjis-kahn."

Posted by: John "Horse Face" Kerry at June 07, 2017 02:06 PM (8b+oT)

48 >>>There was a story in the Financial Times yesterday iirc that qatars payment of a huge ransom for third kidnapped hunting party to Iran caused the latest kerfuffle.

yeah but my source told me this is part of a growing 5 year war and that there are multiple reasons that Saudi Arabia and the others aren't covering up for Qatar any more.

That is, shit like this has been simmering for years, but it was papered over for the sake of pan-Gulf-State unity.

Some blame Trump and his call for an Arab Nato.

Posted by: ace at June 07, 2017 02:07 PM (8rNrN)

49 Well, I definitely know that I'm completely out of my depth here when it comes to power struggles within the middle east, so I'm going to be abstaining from trying to say much on this topic.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at June 07, 2017 02:07 PM (KUaJL)

50 How do you corrupt a left wing institute?

Posted by: MAC-SOG at June 07, 2017 02:07 PM (QPdNE)

51 Ziggy played Qatar

Posted by: josephistan at June 07, 2017 02:07 PM (ANIFC)

52 44 the Brotherhood is actually the Muslim Brotherhood. Moslems hate it when you call them Mohammedans.
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at June 07, 2017 02:06 PM (v8zB

Which is why I do it relentlessly. More specifically I refer to them as goat-fucking Mohammedans, or GFMs for short.

Posted by: Insomniac, forgotten but not yet gone at June 07, 2017 02:07 PM (0mRoj)

53 Comey's prepared testimony has been released. The Dems may be canceling those Fitzmas parties again.

Posted by: Fortunato at June 07, 2017 02:07 PM (44OyV)

54 Say what you will about them being terrorist-supporting pieces of s#$%, the service on Qatar Airways is still better than any US airline

Posted by: brak at June 07, 2017 02:07 PM (VckGX)

55 Isn't it Muslim Brotherhood, not Mohammed Brotherhood?

Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at June 07, 2017 02:07 PM (FQKBL)

56 50 How do you corrupt a left wing institute?
Posted by: MAC-SOG at June 07, 2017 02:07 PM (QPdNE)

Introduce patriotism and free enterprise.

Posted by: Insomniac, forgotten but not yet gone at June 07, 2017 02:08 PM (0mRoj)

57 >>>50 How do you corrupt a left wing institute?

How do you warm the Sun?

Posted by: ace at June 07, 2017 02:08 PM (8rNrN)

58 It's "kway-tar"

Posted by: Insomniac, forgotten but not yet gone at June 07, 2017 02:08 PM (0mRoj)

59 It would be nice had the US not been shackled by environmentalists and we could have pumped our own damn oil.

We're getting there, as I indicated, with the fracking boom. MOAR DRILLENG would help too, and more refineries, and so on.

Sometimes good things happen despite the Left's best efforts.

(And seriously, the whole Arabic-Roman lettering transliteration thing is getting on my nerves. There's a consistent transliteration schema for Chinese to English... I'm not usually a big fan of top-down stuff like this, but some standardization would be nice.)

Posted by: Lance McCormick at June 07, 2017 02:08 PM (u0s1P)

60

Well you can pump your iron and shine your shoes
And wear your hair just right
You go down out on cruisin' street
'Cause you want to score tonight
We all want to strut our stuff
And you really want to show your scars
Forget all about that macho shit
And learn how to play Qatar

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 07, 2017 02:08 PM (IqV8l)

61 Slightly OT, but it seems there are still real men in England. (Warning, goes to Hot Air, but it's the first time I've seen this story.)

http://bit.ly/2rWgHSx

Posted by: notsothoreau at June 07, 2017 02:08 PM (JKNZq)

62 Comey's prepared testimony has been released. The Dems may be canceling those Fitzmas parties again.

Posted by: Fortunato
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And the stock market is going up.

Posted by: John at June 07, 2017 02:09 PM (8b+oT)

63 So the 'ransom' is a BS payment to fund terror.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles

Exactly, wtf were they hunting in southern Iraq

Posted by: Jean at June 07, 2017 02:09 PM (1VFvU)

64 Still my Qatar gently weeps...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2017 02:09 PM (AURKQ)

65 They 'conveniently' paid a ransom.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 07, 2017 02:09 PM (7ZVPa)

66 63 So the 'ransom' is a BS payment to fund terror.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles

Exactly, wtf were they hunting in southern Iraq
Posted by: Jean at June 07, 2017 02:09 PM (1VFvU)

Wabbits!

Posted by: Insomniac, forgotten but not yet gone at June 07, 2017 02:09 PM (0mRoj)

67 55 Isn't it Muslim Brotherhood, not Mohammed Brotherhood?

Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at June 07, 2017 02:07 PM (FQKBL)

I think their official name is actually "Ikhwan".

Posted by: Hikaru at June 07, 2017 02:09 PM (9TK8E)

68 This is the next season's plot for 'Game of Thrones' yes?

Or is this the sequel to 'Inception'?

I just can't keep up with these movie reviews; pop culture changes so quickly. We love Wonder Woman now, I think.

Posted by: Grunionborg the Translator at June 07, 2017 02:09 PM (m9X4Y)

69 Or "Stercus Cavus" for those of you in Ancient Rome.

Posted by: Strobe at June 07, 2017 02:10 PM (gbWkA)

70 It's pronounced, "throat-warbler-mangrove."

Posted by: Dang at June 07, 2017 02:10 PM (8b+oT)

71 "pahw kee stawhn" aka -Land of the Pure.

Posted by: Glenn John at June 07, 2017 02:10 PM (LilNs)

72 The larch.

Posted by: Insomniac, forgotten but not yet gone at June 07, 2017 02:10 PM (0mRoj)

73 Qatar has to be a lousy posting for a serviceman. Hotter than Algeria, in the Sahara Desert.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 07, 2017 02:10 PM (7ZVPa)

74 "Exactly, wtf were they hunting in southern Iraq"

~~Sheep~~ Girls

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 07, 2017 02:10 PM (J+eG2)

75 It's "kway-tar"

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No, it is pronounced 'Gut ter'.

Posted by: Grunionborg the Translator at June 07, 2017 02:11 PM (m9X4Y)

76 Can a leftwing "institute" be corrupted by foreign terror 'n oil money?

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It don't think its corruption, as much as fulfilling their mission statement.

Posted by: simplemind at June 07, 2017 02:11 PM (xVRrG)

77 The Left and Democrat Part are majority funded by radical islam. It explains so much, that it cannot be anything but so.

Posted by: Mega at June 07, 2017 02:11 PM (DKlbL)

78
Well, I for one am ready to start dropping bombs on someone.

Two questions:

Who's with me?
Who's the enemy?

Posted by: John McCain at June 07, 2017 02:11 PM (HTdUD)

79 Libya is islamist noww too tnx to barky o.

Posted by: jb at June 07, 2017 02:12 PM (A59LS)

80 We were hunting Boy's Ass

Posted by: Qatar Aristocrats and Clerics at June 07, 2017 02:12 PM (8rNrN)

81 Qatar is the location of our main airbase. We may have to go back to SA.

Posted by: Jack Sock at June 07, 2017 02:14 PM (6qmBU)

82 59 It would be nice had the US not been shackled by environmentalists and we could have pumped our own damn oil.

We're getting there, as I indicated, with the fracking boom. MOAR DRILLENG would help too, and more refineries, and so on.

Sometimes good things happen despite the Left's best efforts.

(And seriously, the whole Arabic-Roman lettering transliteration thing is getting on my nerves. There's a consistent transliteration schema for Chinese to English... I'm not usually a big fan of top-down stuff like this, but some standardization would be nice.)

Posted by: Lance McCormick at June 07, 2017 02:08 PM (u0s1P)

How do you standardize rules for a language that doesn't have vowels?

Posted by: Hikaru at June 07, 2017 02:14 PM (9TK8E)

83 Fuck you, I am Millwell.

It's not exactly Churchillian, but it might do.

Posted by: Jean at June 07, 2017 02:14 PM (1VFvU)

84 Jordan and Chad should hook up.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at June 07, 2017 02:14 PM (ul9CR)

85 fly Emirates -all the footballers do.

Footballers explained -gay guys who play soccer in Europe.

Posted by: Glenn John at June 07, 2017 02:15 PM (LilNs)

86 as usual there is no great option in the Middle East.

but it does seem to me that Qatar is worse.

Posted by: ace at June 07, 2017 02:03 PM (8rNrN)
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Im absolutely not convinced of the "less bad" here. I just wished we had politicians to pursue Kissingers "cant they both lose?", instead of having to pick sides between Iran lobby and Saudi lobby.

Posted by: Nurse Ratched at June 07, 2017 02:15 PM (nFtUw)

87 This could turn out to be a Qatar ball.

Posted by: Jack Sock at June 07, 2017 02:15 PM (6qmBU)

88 Deep woods Qatar

Posted by: Insomniac, forgotten but not yet gone at June 07, 2017 02:15 PM (0mRoj)

89 There was a story in the Financial Times yesterday iirc that qatars payment of a huge ransom for third kidnapped hunting party to Iran caused the latest kerfuffle.
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"kidnapping" should be in quotes.

if you want to finance terrorism but not get blamed for it. You get someone kidnapped and pay for their return. You know, like an Ambassador *coughstevenscoughcough*

Posted by: simplemind at June 07, 2017 02:15 PM (xVRrG)

90 Qatar is the location of our main airbase. We may have to go back to SA.
Posted by: Jack Sock

Cough, regime change, cough. Some minor Prince is probably looking at a pile of Saudi cash right now.

Posted by: Jean at June 07, 2017 02:15 PM (1VFvU)

91 How do you standardize rules for a language that doesn't have vowels?

The Jews managed it.

Anyway, I'm talking standardizing names of places and people, and consonants, not the language itself.

Khaddafy and Gadaffi should not be pronounced the same.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at June 07, 2017 02:16 PM (u0s1P)

92 I want to smack that kerry jackass everytime he says "jenjis" khan.

It's either "genghis khan" pronounced the way normal americans pronounce it, because you're an american, jackass...

or it's something like "Ching-geez Han" if you want the native turkic pronunciation.

Damn fool.

Same with Qatar.

It's either "kuh TAR", or "al GKAH-tr" with that heavily glottalized stop that arabic has. "Gutter", pronounced like the english word, just sounds retarded and wrong because it's... retarded and wrong.

No way in hell am i going to try putting IPA characters in pixy... the hamsters would have a bunch of mini rodent strokes.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2017 02:17 PM (AURKQ)

93 Can a left wing institution be corrupted by terror and oil money?

*mind boggles*

Perish the thought! They came pre-corrupted!

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Order a Large Covfefe and Receive a Free Lumpy Carmgul Bat at The Outrage Outlet! at June 07, 2017 02:17 PM (hLRSq)

94 as usual there is no great option in the Middle East.

Dig me up ....

Posted by: Zombie Gen LeMay at June 07, 2017 02:17 PM (1VFvU)

95
Anybody got 4 Qatars for a dollar?

Posted by: naturalfake at June 07, 2017 02:17 PM (NyJwR)

96 About Qatar I found this interview with Luke Coffey to be very good. I think I found it linked here earlier. But Coffey is very interesting. He seems to be very knowledgeable and have little bias. Unlike say, Michael Totten. And he is plain spoken. Might be worth checking out.

http://tinyurl.com/y7p7ez9f

Posted by: gracepc at June 07, 2017 02:18 PM (OU4q6)

97 59 It would be nice had the US not been shackled by environmentalists and we could have pumped our own damn oil.

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You can't really get it out of the ground anywhere cheaper than Ghawar, it is a factor of the play. Also, oil is fungible worldwide, so if we don't use it, another country will still buy it. That said, we are using a lot more domestic oil now, and can do more.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 07, 2017 02:18 PM (7ZVPa)

98 Qatar is where clockboy went, and slo where Obama placed some Gitmo detainees under the promise that Qatar would keep them for one while year before letting them back onto the battle field.

Suspect.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2017 02:18 PM (NOIQH)

99 >>81
Qatar is the location of our main airbase. We may have to go back to SA. Posted by: Jack Sock at June 07, 2017 02:14 PM (6qmBU)

Al Udeid could be relocated anywhere.

Posted by: General Zod at June 07, 2017 02:18 PM (Bdeb0)

100 How do you standardize rules for a language that doesn't have vowels?

Posted by: Hikaru at June 07, 2017 02:14 PM (9TK8E)
-----------------------------------------------My confidential sources tell me that Trump intends to pull the US out of the International Translations Standardization and Strategic Linguistic Coordination Treaty anyway. So we will be immune to such.

Posted by: RioBravo at June 07, 2017 02:19 PM (SsblQ)

101 Gutter!

(hic)

Posted by: Hillary at June 07, 2017 02:19 PM (4AVeu)

102 83 Fuck you, I am Millwell.

It's not exactly Churchillian, but it might do.
Posted by: Jean at June 07, 2017 02:14 PM (1VFvU)

*****

Update to Winnie's most excellent speech: "We will fight them on the beaches, we will fight them in the streets, we will fight them in the Pubs..."

Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2017 02:19 PM (0tfLf)

103 "Comey's prepared testimony has been released."

It won't be about the prepared testimony. It'll be about Q-and-A loaded with unsubtle insinuations, and about how they're adroitly spun to "shape the narrative".

Democratic Senator Sam Stemwinder: "Director Comey, wouldn't you say that the President's comments to you about General Flynn constitute textbook obstruction of justice?"

Jim Comey: "Senator, I'm sure some people might choose to characterize it that way, but I'm just an ordinary humble servant of the public interest and making such detailed determinations regarding intent is out of my league." (boyish grin)

The snooze media: "COMEY REFUSES TO DENY ILLEGAL PRESSURE FROM EMBATTLED PRESIDENT TRUMP. DEMOCRATS RENEW CALLS FOR IMPEACHMENT. FILM AT ELEVEN."

Posted by: torquewrench at June 07, 2017 02:19 PM (ujwCG)

104 This is all very confusing.

Posted by: Grunionborg the Translator at June 07, 2017 02:19 PM (m9X4Y)

105 The Al Jiz thing is kind of interesting, from the outside. I mean, at one point before things got Super Syrial, Al Jiz actually had some anti-terror positions, but they may have been factional.

Al Jiz bought Al Gurr's network, and libs starting watching Al Jiz, and going on about how not-honkey they were.

And then Al Jiz got all jiggy with supporting them some terror fronts.

As I said, from a distance, it looks like the new Western Lib audience actually drove the pro-nastyass position.

Mind you, it was probably all factional anyway.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 07, 2017 02:20 PM (wB8Tg)

106 A reminder: Qatar is where Obama sent the five Taliban honchos swapped for Bergdahl, for one year of "supervision" before full release. WTF?

Posted by: Gref at June 07, 2017 02:20 PM (AMIL/)

107 The lack of sploydy events in the Gulf States has always made my Spidey Sense tingle

Posted by: Jean at June 07, 2017 02:20 PM (1VFvU)

108 >>if you want to finance terrorism but not get blamed for it. You get
someone kidnapped and pay for their return. You know, like an
Ambassador *coughstevenscoughcough*

Or a prisoner exchange *cough* blind sheik *cough*

Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2017 02:20 PM (NOIQH)

109 or it's something like "Ching-geez Han" if you want the native turkic pronunciation.

Granted, what natives call a place isn't always what outsiders do, and pronunciation too.

But pick one. Germans can call their city "Munchen" with an umlaut) while we call it "Munich." Fine. No one calls it "Manken" or "Nooische" or "Jamba-Jamba."

Posted by: Lance McCormick at June 07, 2017 02:20 PM (u0s1P)

110 Ffffuuu

Posted by: Lance McCormick at June 07, 2017 02:21 PM (u0s1P)

111 The Clintons sent $1.8 billion to Qatar last fall.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 07, 2017 02:21 PM (7ZVPa)

112 Comey released his prepared testimony. Nothing there.

The markets immediately picked up after the release.

Posted by: Marcus T, Playwright at June 07, 2017 02:21 PM (sNAef)

113 The Al Jiz thing is kind of interesting

I volunteer as tribute!

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at June 07, 2017 02:22 PM (87y4e)

114 One man's Mede is another man's Persian.

Posted by: Iran, Iraq, Persia, whatever at June 07, 2017 02:22 PM (fSf/G)

115 The Clintons sent $1.8 billion to Qatar last fall.

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Treason.

Posted by: simplemind at June 07, 2017 02:22 PM (xVRrG)

116 Jordan and Chad should hook up.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at June 07, 2017 02:14 PM (ul9CR) fnord (ul9CR)

Long distance relationships are frought.

Mind you, they're both pretty thirsty, so who knows?

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 07, 2017 02:22 PM (wB8Tg)

117 Churchill "We shall never surrender!"
Roy Larner "Fuck you, I'm Millwall!"

Posted by: Strobe at June 07, 2017 02:23 PM (gbWkA)

118 If Trump did 'provoke' this, it is to his credit, IMO.

Posted by: Rhymes with Covfefe at June 07, 2017 02:06 PM (1Rgee)

I agree. Interesting what you can do with one simple word. "provoke".

Posted by: gracepc at June 07, 2017 02:23 PM (OU4q6)

119 Get your mind out of the Qatar.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 07, 2017 02:23 PM (IqV8l)

120 Posted by: General Zod at June 07, 2017 02:18 PM (Bdeb0)

Not very easily. They have the longest runways in the ME and as far as I know, only ME country that we can fly B-52s from.

Posted by: Jack Sock at June 07, 2017 02:23 PM (6qmBU)

121 Can we pay Qatar a couple billion to kidnap the Clinton and Obama royal families?

Posted by: ShainS at June 07, 2017 02:23 PM (8nQk1)

122 Qatar and Al Jazeera remain a quandary to me.

It isn't just an "airbase" - Centcom HQ in theater is there. So it is very much a strategic part of our effort.

But they do indeed have AJ as a state run/supported media arm, and AJ is a propaganda network for the bad guys.

If I were running the GWOT, seems like I could aim a laser guided something or other at AJ's uplink antenna. I mean CENTCOM and bad guy propaganda network are in the same freaking city.

The fact that we have allowed this to obtain means either we aren't serious about winning - or something else is going on.

Posted by: blaster at June 07, 2017 02:24 PM (ykJDg)

123 All I see is more chaos.

Posted by: Soona at June 07, 2017 02:24 PM (6yCLd)

124 "You can't really get it out of the ground anywhere cheaper than Ghawar"

There was a Houston investment banker who was claiming that production costs at Ghawar have been steadily going up, as the Saudis have been forced to use more and more water pressurization to extract a given amount of crude.

Posted by: torquewrench at June 07, 2017 02:24 PM (ujwCG)

125 Welcome back Qatar.

Posted by: Fritz at June 07, 2017 02:24 PM (2Mnv1)

126 Not going to copy and paste ya Lance, for fear of enbarrelenment, but...

Yep. exactly. For any exonym, just pick one of two possible pronunciations. Your own comfortable way in your own language (or if you're a polyglot, the comfortable way to say it in the language you're currently speaking), or the "right" way in the native language. But for shit's sake, don't just make up some dumb pronunciation that's wrong on all counts and then act like you're smarter than everyone else.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2017 02:25 PM (AURKQ)

127 but the Jews didn't manage it. there was a big debate over Babylonian, Palestinian, and Tiberian pronunciation. although I hear the Tiberians got the best case.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at June 07, 2017 02:25 PM (v8zB8)

128 This is where I remind everyone that Obama sent the Taliban 5 to Qatar back in 2014, right in the middle of this swirling drama. At the behest of the Taliban no less.

Five hardened terrorists sent to a terrorist-coddling country in the midst of diplomatic no-platforming by its neighboring Mid-East countries who aren't too happy about its penchant for terrorist-coddling.

Really, if you were looking to completely destablize the middle east, what would you do differently than Obama?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at June 07, 2017 02:25 PM (4df7R)

129 Also, Trump, by tweet, seems to be cheering the Qatari cutoff (which sounds like it should be a Ludlum novel).

Posted by: blaster at June 07, 2017 02:25 PM (ykJDg)

130 Wasn't there a ...
Didn't ...
Something about ...

ah HAH! Saudi-led intervention in Bahrain in 2011.

It all makes perfect sense now.
It was the Iranians.

Posted by: Grunionborg the Translator at June 07, 2017 02:25 PM (m9X4Y)

131
All I see is more chaos.

Job security.

Posted by: Maxwell Smart at June 07, 2017 02:25 PM (IqV8l)

132 Posted by: notsothoreau at June 07, 2017 02:08 PM (JKNZq)

It is their governments that are paralyzed. The people look to their governments for leadership and it isn't there in a crisis. That, however, is not a sustainable situation. The leadership vacuum always gets filled. The thing you should be worrying about, though, is who ends up filling that surrendered space.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Order a Large Covfefe and Receive a Free Lumpy Carmgul Bat at The Outrage Outlet! at June 07, 2017 02:25 PM (hLRSq)

133 Qatar and Al Jazeera remain a quandary to me.

It isn't just an "airbase" - Centcom HQ in theater is there. So it is very much a strategic part of our effort.

Posted by: blaster at June 07, 2017 02:24 PM (ykJDg) fnord (ykJDg)

It would make a very interesting story if anyone ever told it.

Kind of an inbred, mentally unstable Cold War.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 07, 2017 02:25 PM (wB8Tg)

134 A coup that shut down AJ, snatched the Clinton cash, and renamed it is my new fantasy

Posted by: Jean at June 07, 2017 02:25 PM (1VFvU)

135 121 Can we pay Qatar a couple billion to kidnap the Clinton and Obama royal families?

Posted by: ShainS at June 07, 2017 02:23 PM (8nQk1)

I'm seeing a GoFundMe.

Posted by: Some damn moron at June 07, 2017 02:25 PM (E8apb)

136 114 One man's Mede is another man's Persian.
Posted by: Iran, Iraq, Persia, whatever at June 07, 2017 02:22 PM (fSf/G)

They can both suck it.

Posted by: Elam at June 07, 2017 02:26 PM (AURKQ)

137 From the latin: catara

Posted by: RioBravo at June 07, 2017 02:26 PM (SsblQ)

138 I know one of Sheikh Khalid Bin Hamad Al Thani's sons, the one who likes drag racing. He financed Alanabi Racing, Alan Johnson's team. He wrote a check for $100 million to fund five years of operation but that suddenly ended in 2012. He seemed like a regular guy, except that he could write a check for $100 million. That said, fuck 'em. All alliances, ceasefires, peace treaties and agreements with Arabs last until they feel strong enough to break the agreement. Mo's example being the justification.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at June 07, 2017 02:26 PM (Eyx+b)

139 Made the Qatari run in less than twelve parsecs.

Posted by: Han Trio at June 07, 2017 02:27 PM (IqV8l)

140 Really, if you were looking to completely destablize the middle east, what would you do differently than Obama?
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Been my theme song for years now.

Serious analysis decades from now, if we still have serious analysts, will generate a lot of interesting books on this topic.

Posted by: simplemind at June 07, 2017 02:27 PM (xVRrG)

141 production costs at Ghawar have been steadily going up, as the Saudis have been forced to use more and more water pressurization to extract a given amount of crude.

Posted by: torquewrench

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Yes, that is true, but it went from $11 to maybe $18-20, while West Texas came down from $40 to $29-32

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 07, 2017 02:28 PM (7ZVPa)

142 If you know someone who's a Qatar, get them help before they seriously injure themselves.

Posted by: Insomniac, forgotten but not yet gone at June 07, 2017 02:28 PM (0mRoj)

143 Huh. Learned something new.

Thanks Ace.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at June 07, 2017 02:28 PM (3OIiX)

144 So the Saudi's engineer the decapitation Of Gutter's government and the imposition of puppet ruler ala Vietnam?

NSA says they didn't see it coming?

Posted by: torabora at June 07, 2017 02:28 PM (6dFYM)

145 "Really, if you were looking to completely destablize the middle east, what would you do differently than Obama? "

Leave an upper decker in the can at Mecca and say it was the Jooooos?

Posted by: Marcus T, Playwright at June 07, 2017 02:29 PM (sNAef)

146 Not very easily. They have the longest runways in the ME and as far as I know, only ME country that we can fly B-52s from.
Posted by: Jack Sock at June 07, 2017 02:23 PM (6qmBU)

You don't need a B-52 to drop Love, damn it.

Posted by: ScoggDog at June 07, 2017 02:29 PM (CVs5m)

147 >>>>So the Saudi's engineer the decapitation Of Gutter's government and the imposition of puppet ruler ala Vietnam?

NSA says they didn't see it coming?
.
.
.Well to be fair they didn't see the Soviet Union collapsing or 9/11 either.

Posted by: The Great White Scostsman at June 07, 2017 02:29 PM (le7jz)

148 looks like The Mummy is getting cursed by critics

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at June 07, 2017 02:29 PM (v8zB8)

149 Really, if you were looking to completely destablize the middle east, what would you do differently than Obama? "

Leave an upper decker in the can at Mecca and say it was the Jooooos?
======================
I'm pretty sure Obama did that one also.

Posted by: simplemind at June 07, 2017 02:30 PM (xVRrG)

150 Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2017 02:25 PM (AURKQ)

*highfive*

'Exonym' is one of my favorite words, but I momentarily blanked on it.

but the Jews didn't manage it. there was a big debate over Babylonian, Palestinian, and Tiberian pronunciation. although I hear the Tiberians got the best case.

Okay, okay. I do recall something about 'YHWH' supposedly could be pronounced 'Yahu-Wahu' and not just 'Yahweh."

Moral of the story: vowels are good. Modern language is awesome.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at June 07, 2017 02:30 PM (u0s1P)

151 Catarrh is snot. Qatar is not.

Posted by: Unsure if deplorable, covfefe moron at June 07, 2017 02:30 PM (9MlEz)

152 But for shit's sake, don't just make up some dumb pronunciation that's wrong on all counts and then act like you're smarter than everyone else.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2017 02:25 PM (AURKQ) fnord (AURKQ)

Qi'teeeeerh'

BTW FISA is pronounced wrong. I know what the rules say, but it's wrong. Alla talking heads sound like Jar Jar Binks talking about domestic spying.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 07, 2017 02:30 PM (wB8Tg)

153 Funny thing about stupid -- it really is stupid.

Posted by: KentAllard at June 07, 2017 02:30 PM (TQw9b)

154 I don't say "Gutter" or "Cutter." I say "kaTAR." Fuck'em.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at June 07, 2017 02:31 PM (RuyTK)

155 NSA says they didn't see it coming?
.
.
.Well to be fair they didn't see the Soviet Union collapsing or 9/11 either.

Posted by: The Great White Scostsman at June 07, 2017 02:29 PM (le7jz)

I didn't see my girlfriend dumping me, either, but rest assured I see everything she does now!

Posted by: Bob from the NSA at June 07, 2017 02:31 PM (ykJDg)

156 Okay, okay. I do recall something about 'YHWH' supposedly could be pronounced 'Yahu-Wahu' and not just 'Yahweh."

Also a potent strain of weed grown in the volcanic soils of Hawaii.

Posted by: Insomniac, forgotten but not yet gone at June 07, 2017 02:31 PM (0mRoj)

157 You don't need a B-52 to drop Love, damn it.
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You don't necessarily want to park your B52 in the ME either. Emergency parking only.

Posted by: simplemind at June 07, 2017 02:31 PM (xVRrG)

158 Qatar is where Barky sent the Bergdahl Five from Gitmo. Qatar is the largest financier of terror amongst the gulf states, save for Iran.

Posted by: pissed off oddnot at June 07, 2017 02:33 PM (g1MTt)

159
Not very easily. They have the longest runways in the ME and as far as I know, only ME country that we can fly B-52s from.
Posted by: Jack Sock at June 07, 2017 02:23 PM (6qmBU)

Not sure why we need to fly B-52's out of the ME

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at June 07, 2017 02:33 PM (lKyWE)

160 >>141
production costs at Ghawar have been steadily going up, as the Saudis
have been forced to use more and more water pressurization to extract a
given amount of crude.

Ghawar has the added distinction of being in the Eastern Province, domain of simmering Shiite resentment and the Qatif uprisings...

Posted by: General Zod at June 07, 2017 02:33 PM (Bdeb0)

161 I don't know much about it, but isn't one of the big differences between modern arabic dialects (moroccan vs. egyptian vs. saudi etc.) the pronunciation of the vowels and how derivative words are formed from their roots?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2017 02:34 PM (AURKQ)

162 as usual there is no great option in the Middle East.
==========
Ain't nobody had any problem with us for a few thousand years.
/s/
Carthage

Posted by: RoyalOil at June 07, 2017 02:34 PM (ZQpd0)

163 I'm going to buy some salt futures.

Posted by: simplemind at June 07, 2017 02:35 PM (xVRrG)

164 Not sure why we need to fly B-52's out of the ME

*****

Just need to be able to fly over the ME.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2017 02:35 PM (0tfLf)

165 >>How do you corrupt a left wing institute?

Islamicize it so it's doing your recruiting/conversions for you?

The Saudis have paid for a lot of "Chair of Islamic Studies" and whatnot at universities throughout the US.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2017 02:35 PM (NOIQH)

166 I don't say "Gutter" or "Cutter." I say "kaTAR."

--

So do the people that live there.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 07, 2017 02:35 PM (7ZVPa)

167 >>159 Not very easily. They have the longest runways in the ME and as far as I know, only ME country that we can fly B-52s from.
Posted by: Jack Sock at June 07, 2017 02:23 PM (6qmBU)

I think Qatar was supposed to build a second runway there circa 2009 (it's actually a Qatari Air Force base), but that never materialized, quelle surprise. My impression (from 2010) was that the runway's condition had been allowed to degrade somewhat, at least that's what was said there. Balad--if it weren't in the Iraqi soup--is huge, and would've made a great alternative.

Posted by: General Zod at June 07, 2017 02:36 PM (Bdeb0)

168 Arabic actually does have vowels: Short and long A, I, and U. In the modern written language, they're notated as small diacritics over the letter adjacent. In addition, the long variants are written directly into the word via matres lectonis: 'Alif (') = A, Waw (W)= U, 'Ya (Y)= I. Basically, consonants do double duty as vowels, like the letters "I" and "V" once did.

Posted by: Jackal at June 07, 2017 02:37 PM (pojTx)

169 The Saudis have paid for a lot of "Chair of Islamic Studies" and whatnot at universities throughout the US.
===============
Islamic law forbids money lending. No loans. But it okey dokey with taking an ownership in the company in exchange for cash.

Lot of "Western" companies got them some Saudi partners and corporate policy changed accordingly.

Posted by: simplemind at June 07, 2017 02:37 PM (C6xeQ)

170 I once heard on the radio a political figure from Qatar. He pronounced it Ka-Tar, both syllables, clearly.

Pronouncing it Cutter or Gutter is just one more thing about the Left that drives me batty.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Covfefe Achiever at June 07, 2017 02:38 PM (RwwCT)

171 The gift this brave Londoner got from his friends his hilarious. Buncha Morons, no doubt

(warning, hot air link)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/y878fz7x

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at June 07, 2017 02:39 PM (hMwEB)

172 You forgot Kuwait in your axis of bad guys. A lot of private money flows from there to terrorists. Ironic, considering we gave them back their country...

Posted by: macleod at June 07, 2017 02:39 PM (I7blG)

173 You take that back about my boyfriends at Brookings!

Posted by: Shep Smith at June 07, 2017 02:39 PM (phoPy)

174 sock off

Posted by: blaster at June 07, 2017 02:40 PM (ykJDg)

175 Can a leftwing "institute" be uncorrupt? The answer is no.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at June 07, 2017 02:40 PM (QQ+il)

176 Fuck you, I am Millwell.

This guy needs a knighthood about 1000X more than Elton John does.

Posted by: dagny at June 07, 2017 02:41 PM (OdHXU)

177 >>Islamic law forbids money lending. No loans. But it
okey dokey with taking an ownership in the company in exchange for cash. Posted by: simplemind at June 07, 2017 02:37 PM (C6xeQ)

IIRC, Islam forbids riba, or usury. Loans can be made.

Posted by: General Zod at June 07, 2017 02:41 PM (Bdeb0)

178 How much more corrupt could it be? And the answer is "none." None more corrupt.

Posted by: Nigel Tufnel at June 07, 2017 02:41 PM (ANIFC)

179 lol, where have you been? The Israelis are pro-instability not anti-

Posted by: ZW at June 07, 2017 02:42 PM (KpJNr)

180 I'm really going to make an effort to start calling them all "barbarian" instead of "left-wing". Just to see if I can get it to stick.

Who's with me?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2017 02:42 PM (AURKQ)

181 Sic semper Qatar

Posted by: Strobe at June 07, 2017 02:42 PM (gbWkA)

182
*sings*

Qatarzan!

He's a Qatar Man

He's all you can stand

Give him a hand!

Qatarzan!

Posted by: Mohammed Stevens at June 07, 2017 02:42 PM (NyJwR)

183 I can't wait for the World Cup in 2020 in the soccer capital of the world, Qatar. Blazing heat, rapid Jew hatred, no alcohol, jihadis up the wazoo and European soccer hooligans. What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: JackStraw at June 07, 2017 02:42 PM (QsE2G)

184 Jesus Christ...Iran is Shia and blood enemies of near all Sunni on the planet

Posted by: Beto Ochoa (@Beto_In_Austin) at June 07, 2017 02:43 PM (hCdMd)

185 B52's have no business being based in the ME. Same goes for our other strategic bombers.

Posted by: Soona at June 07, 2017 02:43 PM (6yCLd)

186 148 looks like The Mummy is getting cursed by critics

Is that because (a) it's not Wonder Woman and how DARE it attempt to take her 2nd week box office entitlements; (b) it's as dull and tropey as it looks; (c) YAAAASSSS, you go WW!!; (d) the 4-irises trick is not really scary to begin with and we've already seen it a dozen times in the previews; (e) Tom Cruise, you white male hate-penis, how DARE you make another movie; (f) No one is really that scared of mummies, that's why in the '90s it was played as adventure-comedy; (g) no lesbian relationship 'shipping' opportunity for Sophia Boutella; or (h) Shaggy and Velma appear at the end and reveal it was just a hoax pulled off by old man McWhithers? (and he would have gotten away with it if not for you meddling kids!)

I'm going with (a)_ + (f) = sad face.

Posted by: moronhorde minion at June 07, 2017 02:43 PM (88jeI)

187 So, how does this de-stablization of Qatar affect the quatloo?

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is now luxuriating in vast pools of winning! at June 07, 2017 02:43 PM (kXoT0)

188 The Brookings Institute. Today's version of the Tobacco Institute.

Posted by: LASue at June 07, 2017 02:44 PM (sfTql)

189 Trump's presidency is good for the American economy, even by virtue of his enemies.

Bars are opening early and hosting special promotions for tomorrow's Comey watch. If the Leftazoids play this right, another long weekend will be added to the federal calendar.

Dopes

Posted by: kallisto at June 07, 2017 02:45 PM (kD8Fh)

190 Plus GOD kicks the mummy's ass any day of the week and twice on weekends.

Posted by: Strobe at June 07, 2017 02:45 PM (gbWkA)

191 I'm going with (a)_ + (f) = sad face.
Posted by: moronhorde minion at June 07, 2017 02:43 PM (88jeI)

Wonder Woman was actually good, dude. The Mummy is getting panned because Universal is trying to put the cart before the horse with a Cinematic Universe! where all their monster movies can live before first remaking any of those monster movies in an actual good movie.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at June 07, 2017 02:46 PM (KUaJL)

192 So, how does this de-stablization of Qatar affect the quatloo? Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is now luxuriating in vast pools of winning! at June 07, 2017 02:43 PM (kXoT0)
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What about carbon credits and renewable energy certificates?

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 07, 2017 02:46 PM (MIKMs)

193 Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2017 02:42 PM (AURKQ)

I'm with you but I fear they will think the word barbarian is a compliment because it reminds them of "Kardashian".

*Oh, thank you for calling me a barbarian, it means my butt is boner - inducing"

Posted by: kallisto at June 07, 2017 02:46 PM (kD8Fh)

194 So the Saudi's engineer the decapitation Of Gutter's government and the imposition of puppet ruler ala Vietnam?

Has a good beat and the Guns of August can dance to it.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 07, 2017 02:47 PM (B+qrE)

195 There was a story from FT about member or members of the Qatar Royal family going on a "hunting trip" to Iraq (no idea what you hunt in Iraq) and getting kidnapped.
The ransom went to Iran and a plethora of Shite militias added up to about $1 billion.

This huge injection of money into the conflict was supposedly the last straw.

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at June 07, 2017 02:47 PM (HtL8O)

196 I'm crying at the comments under the WSJ article on Comey's written testimony for tomorrow.

It's a big nothing burger and their heads are exploding.

Posted by: Marcus T, Playwright at June 07, 2017 02:47 PM (sNAef)

197 We should build our biggest Air base in Israel...It is already our biggest supply depot

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 07, 2017 02:47 PM (m8J9w)

198
I kinda hate when english speakers say "gutter" for Qatar. We don't say La France or call China "zhong guo".

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 07, 2017 02:47 PM (r+sAi)

199 Am I the only one who read the Comey statement and thought wait, Trump meets with you, tells you he's worried about leaks and then you IMMEDIATELY went out and told a bunch of other people about the meeting that Trump very specifically wanted to be private?

Okay then.

Posted by: alexthechick - now with extra sand! at June 07, 2017 02:47 PM (mf5HN)

200 I think The Mummy looks pretty good, but I don't want to fork over $15 to see it. I'll wait for netbox or redflix.

Posted by: Nigel Tufnel at June 07, 2017 02:48 PM (ANIFC)

201 161 I don't know much about it, but isn't one of the big differences between modern arabic dialects (moroccan vs. egyptian vs. saudi etc.) the pronunciation of the vowels and how derivative words are formed from their roots?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2017 02:34 PM (AURKQ)

==============================================

I had a Syrian Biology professor in college. Basically, the various dialects run the gamut from what we would classify as accents to essentially separate languages. The relationship is similar to that between the Romance languages: they may be mostly intellegable to a neighbor (eg., Portugese and Spanish) but sound like something related but clearly foriegn to another (eg. Portugese and French). Classical Arabic is taught in school and serves as the lingua franca of the Arabic-Speaking world: think Latin in Medieval and Renaissance Europe. I think it also might serve to keep the various dialects from splitting further. There are also grammatical and lexical differences between dialects as well as between dialects and Classical Arabic: Classical tends to be VSO I think and dialects tend to be SVO like English.

Posted by: Jackal at June 07, 2017 02:48 PM (pojTx)

202 The best thing about the Arabs is they hate each other as much or more than they hate us

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 07, 2017 02:48 PM (m8J9w)

203 Off, Spinal Tap sock

Posted by: josephistan at June 07, 2017 02:49 PM (ANIFC)

204 Conan the Kardashian

Posted by: kallisto at June 07, 2017 02:50 PM (kD8Fh)

205
I can't wait for the World Cup in 2020 in the soccer capital of the world, Qatar. Blazing heat, rapid Jew hatred,

So they're okay with slow Jews?

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at June 07, 2017 02:50 PM (lKyWE)

206 Posted by: General Zod at June 07, 2017 02:36 PM (Bdeb0)

Agreed but Mr Obama couldn't reach an agreement with Iraq because he was busy reaching a shove it up our ass agreement with Iran.

Posted by: Jack Sock at June 07, 2017 02:50 PM (6qmBU)

207 Am I the only one who read the Comey statement and thought wait, Trump meets with you, tells you he's worried about leaks and then you IMMEDIATELY went out and told a bunch of other people about the meeting that Trump very specifically wanted to be private?

Forget it, Alex. It's Beltwaytown.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 07, 2017 02:50 PM (B+qrE)

208 9 out of 10 cutters in Qatar prefer Katars.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 07, 2017 02:50 PM (XMDuf)

209 Posted by: alexthechick - now with extra sand! at June 07, 2017 02:47 PM (mf5HN)

You weren't supposed to notice that.

Posted by: Jack Sock at June 07, 2017 02:51 PM (6qmBU)

210 The Qatarians are just pimps, but I did not know until today, it was Iran the whole time

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 07, 2017 02:51 PM (m8J9w)

211 Posted by: alexthechick - now with extra sand! at June 07, 2017 02:47 PM (mf5HN)

How about the 763rd anonymously sourced gossip item that claimed Director Comey was askeered of being alone in a room with the Donald? (this is separate from hiding in the drapery story).

Our culture is so decadent that Liar Media confidently floats these stories to an eagerly waiting mouth agape public.

Posted by: kallisto at June 07, 2017 02:52 PM (kD8Fh)

212 Nood Comeypalooza

Posted by: steevy at June 07, 2017 02:52 PM (rmVvL)

213 198
I kinda hate when english speakers say "gutter" for Qatar. We don't say La France or call China "zhong guo".

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 07, 2017 02:47 PM (r+sAi)

Oh Lord, the worst was the JEF calling Cuba "Koober".

Posted by: Hikaru at June 07, 2017 02:52 PM (XMDuf)

214 Now tell me again why all these Middle Eastern countries are such dysfunctional hellholes.

Oh, that's right. It's that whole Religion of Peace thing.

Posted by: Furious George at June 07, 2017 02:52 PM (j+dfT)

215 205. I'm hot, tired and stuck at the DMV typing on a phone and you want to give me grief about a typo?

Good Day, sir!

Posted by: JackStraw at June 07, 2017 02:53 PM (QsE2G)

216 Nood Drapery Boy Concern Troll thread

Posted by: kallisto at June 07, 2017 02:54 PM (kD8Fh)

217 Crap.

Posted by: Sharkman at June 07, 2017 02:54 PM (zKIA2)

218 Pronouncing it Cutter or Gutter is just one more thing about the Left that drives me batty.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Covfefe Achiever at June 07, 2017 02:38 PM (RwwCT)

I know it used to be pronounced Cahtarr.

I think someone like Tom Brokaw started saying cutter.

Then it seemed everyone said it that way.

Why we have to suddenly change the pronunciation because old Marbles Mouth decided to get cute is beyond me.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 07, 2017 02:56 PM (4ErVI)

219 Wonder Woman was actually good, dude. The Mummy is getting panned because Universal is trying to put the cart before the horse with a Cinematic Universe! where all their monster movies can live before first remaking any of those monster movies in an actual good movie.

Oh I agree. I enjoyed the hell out of Wonder Woman. And damn - I could watch Gal Gadot just sit and read a phone book, she's painfully pretty. She was better than I thought she'd be, the London scenes like the angry outburst to the stiffs, were great. And the villains were great - that's key. (it's one of the top 3 ways that Suicide Squad was ruined despite having a very talented cast.) I was just making fun of the way the SJW "critics" have reacted to the movie, not the quality of the movie itself.

This whole "Universal monster universe" - meh. Although I do recall something about some deal where someone was trying to rope Angelina Jolie into playing the Bride of Frankenstien, and I think that would be very amusing in a meta-gaming way.

Posted by: moronhorde minion at June 07, 2017 02:57 PM (88jeI)

220 zerohedge's "Tyler Durden" says this is about oil:

goo.gl/gZd1QH

Any takers?

Posted by: geewhiz at June 07, 2017 02:59 PM (G2Sbo)

221 Just for the record, nearly everybody at Zerohedge posts as (Fight Club) "Tyler Durden"

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at June 07, 2017 03:25 PM (HtL8O)

222 124 "You can't really get it out of the ground anywhere cheaper than Ghawar"

There was a Houston investment banker who was claiming that production costs at Ghawar have been steadily going up, as the Saudis have been forced to use more and more water pressurization to extract a given amount of crude.

Yep. They are on the downward slope, where more and more effort is used to extract less and less.

Posted by: GenX at June 07, 2017 03:34 PM (UgF8H)

223 Great run down, ace.

Qatar also supports the Islamists in Libya and was the only Arab state to send a jet fighter as part of our bombing campaign.

The current UN recognized government of :Libya has ties to Islamist militias while the Eastern rebels in Benghazi actually oppose them and also broke off ties with Qatar.

Posted by: Harun at June 07, 2017 03:43 PM (UBBWX)

224 The less dependent we are on ME oil, the greater the terrorist threat has become. It should be the reverse.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 07, 2017 03:46 PM (xAvrH)

225 remember Obummer unloaded a bunch of gitmo's baddies to Qatar. they probably track them as well as we track the visitors that are still here when their VISA expires.

Posted by: arbitrary turn back at June 07, 2017 04:04 PM (8RQER)

226 ACE,

Very well thought out. It cleared up some questions I had. I also posted this link on the comments in Diplomad.

http://www.thediplomad.com/

I hope you don't mind.

Posted by: leaperman at June 07, 2017 04:05 PM (RP7W2)

227 We approve of Algore. He helps destroy the kaffir by weakening them from within. Honorary jihadi..

Posted by: terrorist oil money at June 07, 2017 04:57 PM (6dFYM)

228 Ace : 'The only time will tell , the answer is yes' ....little twist at the end > I love you man , pure snark wit..

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