Tiny, Wealthy Qatar Goes Its Own Way, and Pays for It

Re:Tiny, Wealthy Qatar Goes Its Own Way, and Pays for It by caf on Monday January 22, 2018 @10:56PM (#16210862)

You are completely misreading this article. It isn't painting Qatar as any kind of enemy - the article reads as very sympathetic to the Qatari position (which basically is that the Saudis consider it a vassal and aren't happy with it daring to have an independent foreign policy).

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Re:Tiny, Wealthy Qatar Goes Its Own Way, and Pays for It by roadbeats on Monday January 22, 2018 @11:07PM (#16210910)

I can't imagine a "very sympathetic" article accusing a country for hosting "terrorists". Did we read the same article ?

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Re:Tiny, Wealthy Qatar Goes Its Own Way, and Pays for It by _mhr_ on Monday January 22, 2018 @11:11PM (#16210931)

I read it as going both ways. Accuses the Qataris of, at the very least, turning a blind eye towards terrorism while also depicting their sympathetic plight. It isn't black and white. If anything, it's too sympathetic and glamourizing.

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Re:Tiny, Wealthy Qatar Goes Its Own Way, and Pays for It by roadbeats on Monday January 22, 2018 @11:20PM (#16210964)

Every story has two versions as you know. If you ask Qatari leaders, they'll show the proofs of how Saudi planes carrying drugs and weapons to ISIS got busted in Lebanon.

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Re:Tiny, Wealthy Qatar Goes Its Own Way, and Pays for It by caf on Monday January 22, 2018 @11:26PM (#16210989)

It referred to the case of one alleged terrorist financier who was put before their courts and not convicted. That hardly seems like an accusation against the country, accused people are found not guilty in countries all over the world every day.

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