# Qatari's protesting against US base now **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 9, 2014, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qataris-protesting-against-us-base-now/680928 "2014-02-09T22:12:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2014, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qataris-protesting-against-us-base-now/680928/21 "2014-02-11T05:02:47Z")
> [@Cheshire\_Human](#): > > _ **Vegemite** _ is…yummy what is this i don’t even ---
**Author:** ![Vercingetorix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/848f3c/32.png) [@Vercingetorix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vercingetorix)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2014, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qataris-protesting-against-us-base-now/680928/22 "2014-02-11T05:12:03Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > If this is true, I think Lincoln, er Obama, should invade. Many Civil War threads have convinced me that a nation demanding another nation vacate a base in its territory is a cause for war. Except that Qatar is a sovereign state, not a bunch of separatists unhappy that someone might infringe on their right to own other people as property. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2014, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qataris-protesting-against-us-base-now/680928/23 "2014-02-11T17:36:19Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > If this is true, I think Lincoln, er Obama, should invade. Many Civil War threads have convinced me that a nation demanding another nation vacate a base in its territory is a cause for war. Yes, because as everyone knows the Civil War started when the North invaded the South because the South demanded Federal forts be vacated. Hmmm, wait, it feels like I’m forgetting something in there. Oh yeah, it’s that the South started the war by shelling Fort Sumter and your little analogy doesn’t make the slightest bit of fucking sense and won’t even begin to be a proper analogy until Qatar starts attacking US bases on its soil. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qataris-protesting-against-us-base-now/680928/24 "2014-02-12T20:29:07Z")
> [@Dissonance](#): > > Yes, because as everyone knows the Civil War started when the North invaded the South because the South demanded Federal forts be vacated. Hmmm, wait, it feels like I’m forgetting something in there. Oh yeah, it’s that the South started the war by shelling Fort Sumter and your little analogy doesn’t make the slightest bit of fucking sense and won’t even begin to be a proper analogy until Qatar starts attacking US bases on its soil. Cripes, you’re not advocating we allow Qatar to secede?! ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qataris-protesting-against-us-base-now/680928/25 "2014-02-12T22:40:01Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Cripes, you’re not advocating we allow Qatar to secede?! They knew what they were getting into. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qataris-protesting-against-us-base-now/680928/26 "2014-02-13T01:32:24Z")
> [@Cheshire\_Human](#): > > _ **Vegemite** _ is the yummy stuff the Australians love. _ **Marmite** _ is that horrible, loathsome crap the Brits and Kiwis eat. And _ **Termite** _ is the thing that produces both through its anus! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qataris-protesting-against-us-base-now/680928/27 "2014-02-13T03:57:44Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > And _ **Termite** _ is the thing that produces both through its anus! 🙂 VegeTermite… mmmm… I gotta go make more toast. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qataris-protesting-against-us-base-now/680928/28 "2014-02-13T17:34:49Z")
> [@Dissonance](#): > > Yes, because as everyone knows the Civil War started when the North invaded the South because the South demanded Federal forts be vacated. The North invaded the nation of South, no less. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qataris-protesting-against-us-base-now/680928.md?page=1)