Whose Side Is He On Anyway?

[MSimon]

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/pat ... -jihadists

At a time when Hamas continues to fire salvos of rockets into Israel while rejecting a ceasefire proposal, the United States has finalized a deal to provide the Palestinian terrorist group’s leading supporter, Qatar, with weaponry worth $11 billion.

The deal signed at the Pentagon Monday by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and his Qatari counterpart comes just months after a senior U.S. Treasury official in a speech deplored Qatar’s open support for Hamas, and covert funding for jihadists in Syria, including the al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra and the al-Qaeda offshoot the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS).

Say. Couldn't Obama stop this? Whose side is he on anyway?

[Teahive]

Who's producing the weapons?
Without sufficient public outrage Obama might indeed lack the actual power to do anything about it, making irrelevant the question of whether he wants to.

[Skipjack]

"Defense" lobby got everyone in their pocket...

[GIThruster]

Who's producing the weapons?
Without sufficient public outrage Obama might indeed lack the actual power to do anything about it, making irrelevant the question of whether he wants to.

They sold them Apaches which are made by Boeing, Patriots made by Raytheon and Javelins made by LockMart. All of these have significant distribution and considering we have good relations with Qutar, this is no worse than selling to the Saudis or the Egyptians. The real trouble is it makes our judgements about terrorism sound feeble, vapid and vacuous. I'm sure Boeing paid for our integrity. The up side is that whenever we sell complex weapons systems like this, we send technicians and experts to support those systems, and those people can have profound influence on the peoples of these nations. So there is some good will spread through efforts like this. It's not only a story of run away weapons proliferation, and when someone wants to buy, if we refuse to sell, you know the Russians will.

[MSimon]

if we refuse to sell, you know the Russians will.

Well, there is that.

Plus we have a base there. But I can see the Israelis throwing a major bitch if the weapons get lobbed at them.