@gjohnsit and the basic question that now needs to asked regarding
any development irt the military is is trump calling the any
of the plays, or is he just a show piece coach?

I honestly don't understand this situation

The response signaled the world’s biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas is preparing for the dispute with its neighbors to drag on, after both sides stepped up efforts to win support from the U.S. over the past week. Yousef Al Otaiba, the U.A.E.’s envoy in Washington, said the Trump administration should consider moving its air base out of Qatar, the Associated Press reported, a decision that -- while extremely unlikely -- would leave Qatar without a significant insurance policy in the crisis.

The U.S. has around 10,000 troops in Qatar, as well as the forward headquarters of the military’s Central Command that’s conducting air campaigns in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. The U.S. Department of Defense is likely to “resist very strongly” any suggestion of moving the Al Udaid base, according to Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Middle East fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute.

“Al Udaid offers the U.S. facilities that are, at the moment, unmatched in the Gulf, and cannot simply be replicated elsewhere, at least not overnight,’’ Ulrichsen said on June 6 in an email. Still, “moving the base would be a big blow for Qatar as having CENTCOM was an external security guarantee that has, for decades, underpinned Qatar’s regional security stance.”

@gjohnsit it looks like the UAE is doing the urging, not Qatar.

Al Udeid is going nowhere, and such talk is bluster. One thing that disturbs me greatly though, is that the Qatari Emir is scheduled to leave the country and meet with Macron in Paris next week. Leaving the country in a time of crisis is often a precursor to a coup.

I honestly don't understand this situation

The response signaled the world’s biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas is preparing for the dispute with its neighbors to drag on, after both sides stepped up efforts to win support from the U.S. over the past week. Yousef Al Otaiba, the U.A.E.’s envoy in Washington, said the Trump administration should consider moving its air base out of Qatar, the Associated Press reported, a decision that -- while extremely unlikely -- would leave Qatar without a significant insurance policy in the crisis.

The U.S. has around 10,000 troops in Qatar, as well as the forward headquarters of the military’s Central Command that’s conducting air campaigns in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. The U.S. Department of Defense is likely to “resist very strongly” any suggestion of moving the Al Udaid base, according to Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Middle East fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute.

“Al Udaid offers the U.S. facilities that are, at the moment, unmatched in the Gulf, and cannot simply be replicated elsewhere, at least not overnight,’’ Ulrichsen said on June 6 in an email. Still, “moving the base would be a big blow for Qatar as having CENTCOM was an external security guarantee that has, for decades, underpinned Qatar’s regional security stance.”

@native
John Kerry is on record saying that Saudi Arabia told him that they would pay for it if our military overthrew Assad. I want to know how many of the troops know that this is why they are risking their lives for. One military member said he didn't want to train the rebels because he would feel responsible if they took their weapons and attacked America.

for that Tanf garrison to even be there. What's seldom mentioned is that its very presence is totally illegal, that the primary objective of the fighters being trained there is to overthrow the Syrian government, not to fight ISIS as claimed, and that any clash with Russian troops inside the Syrian border could prove disastrous.

USG seems unwilling to recognize that Syria's borders rightfully belong to Syria, not to America, not to Britain, not to Jordan, and not to Saudi Arabia.

@native for illegal activities in an illegal war, and the whole thing is being run, illegally, by the CIA and the Pentagon, as Congress and the President have abdicated their responsibilities there.

for that Tanf garrison to even be there. What's seldom mentioned is that its very presence is totally illegal, that the primary objective of the fighters being trained there is to overthrow the Syrian government, not to fight ISIS as claimed, and that any clash with Russian troops inside the Syrian border could prove disastrous.

USG seems unwilling to recognize that Syria's borders rightfully belong to Syria, not to America, not to Britain, not to Jordan, and not to Saudi Arabia.