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

Re:Tiny, Wealthy Qatar Goes Its Own Way, and Pays for It by tarsinge on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @03:47AM (#16211995)

It may be a conspiracy theory but we must not be naive usually the marketed reasons have nothing to do with the real geopolitical ones. Remember the Iraq invasion?

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Re:Tiny, Wealthy Qatar Goes Its Own Way, and Pays for It by simias on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @04:15AM (#16212099)

You say "usually" but you only give one single example. Not to say that you couldn't come up with others but I'm not sure I agree with the "usually".

Being french this argument annoys me particularly because if you remember France was against this intervention because we thought the WMD menace was bullshit. Turns out that we were right. Then a few years ago France was saying "Assad is using chemical weapons against civilians, we must do something!" and the whole internet started parroting the russian talking points "But remember Iraq!!! It's all a bunch of lies!!!".

Not to say that french intelligence is infallible or can't be manipulated but using the garbage fire that was the "Gulf War Episode 2: The Empire Strikes Back" to immediately dismiss any kind of foreign intervention is rather disingenuous. Yet an other terrible long term consequence of the Bush administration years I suppose.

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Re:Tiny, Wealthy Qatar Goes Its Own Way, and Pays for It by jessaustin on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @08:58AM (#16213553)

You seem to be leaving something out, here. What was the French position on Libya? In the end, was it different than the position of BHL?

A public reticence to create further disasters, if indeed it existed, would be among the best possible long-term consequences of that foolish administration.

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