{"id":2040,"date":"2017-05-09T21:14:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T21:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2017-05-09T21:16:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T21:16:49","slug":"dennis-ross-qatar-needs-to-stop-funding-islamists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/05\/09\/dennis-ross-qatar-needs-to-stop-funding-islamists\/","title":{"rendered":"FORMER U.S AMBASSADOR DENNIS ROSS : QATAR NEEDS TO STOP FUNDING ISLAMISTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/Al-Udeid-Air-Base.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2041\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/Al-Udeid-Air-Base-1024x700.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/Al-Udeid-Air-Base-1024x700.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/Al-Udeid-Air-Base-300x205.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/Al-Udeid-Air-Base-768x525.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/Al-Udeid-Air-Base-560x383.png 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/Al-Udeid-Air-Base-260x178.png 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/Al-Udeid-Air-Base-160x109.png 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/Al-Udeid-Air-Base.png 1126w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced USA Today<\/p>\n<p>By <span class=\"asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item\">Dennis Ross (<em>Former\u00a0Ambassador Dennis Ross is counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and served in senior national security positions in the Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Obama administrations)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>President Trump is looking anew at American allies and partners.\u00a0While saying he will preserve these relationships, he wants them to pay their fair share and uphold their side of the relationship.\u00a0Whether it is South Korea or Saudi Arabia, they are subject to his calls for them to contribute more and defray our costs in deploying forces to defend them.\u00a0Burden-sharing is not a new concept, but he is placing a premium on it.<\/p>\n<p>It is an important measure, and it should be given greater weight, but it must also be kept in perspective. Consider that one country that would do well on this measure is Qatar.Qatar permitted us to build and operate a massive air base, al-Udeid, and has helped <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/WNT\/story?id=130093\">meet the costs<\/a> of operation.<\/p>\n<p>From al-Udeid, the U.S. conducts all coalition air operations for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/american-base-iraq-syria-airstrikes-operation-inherent-resolve-al-udeid-2015-3\">the entire region<\/a> \u2014 from Afghanistan to Syria.\u00a0It is a critical base for protecting our national security interests in the Middle East, and viewed from this perspective alone, one might judge Qatar to be an American ally.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2017\/05\/08\/qatar-funding-islamism-muslim-brotherhood-hamas-column\/101300766\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced USA Today By Dennis Ross (Former\u00a0Ambassador Dennis Ross is counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and served in senior national security positions in the Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Obama administrations) President Trump is looking anew at American allies and partners.\u00a0While saying he will preserve these relationships, he wants them to pay&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/05\/09\/dennis-ross-qatar-needs-to-stop-funding-islamists\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FORMER U.S AMBASSADOR DENNIS ROSS : QATAR NEEDS TO STOP FUNDING ISLAMISTS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1489,1488,475,171,98],"class_list":["post-2040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","tag-al-udeid","tag-president-trump","tag-qatar","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2044,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions\/2044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}