While nominally an American ally, the small nation uses its vast wealth to support terror and to cultivate anti-American sentiment. Daniel Rosen writes:
Qatar has provided clandestine financial and logistical support to Islamic State in recent years, as even Hillary Clinton acknowledged in a leaked email in August 2014. Moreover, Qatar funds Sunni groups linked to al-Qaeda and is the main financial backer of Hamas. While this should have [been sufficient reason to] destroy Qatari-U.S. relations, the Arab state continues to host a large number of American troops on its soil, which protect it from Gulf rivals, domestic dissidents, and Iran.
Meanwhile, the Qatari-funded Al Jazeera network regularly chastises the United States for [alleged] human-rights abuses. This hypocrisy is very rich, since Qatar abuses migrant workers, flogs dissidents, and says that women’s testimony counts only half as much as men’s. . . . Equally outrageous are Qatar’s increasingly successful attempts to lure American think tanks and universities into its sphere of influence. . . .
This duplicity will only end when the U.S. forces Qatar to come clean. There is no strategic advantage for U.S. troops to be based in Qatar instead of on the soil of more genuine Gulf allies.
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