Quote Originally Posted by CPT Holzbach View Post
True, if they have the facilities.
Kuwait was staging ground for OIF so I guess facilities are there. USN ships regulary dock at Bahrain so facilities are there.


Quote Originally Posted by CPT Holzbach View Post
So does the USA, Britain, and Spain. And look what happened. Meanwhile, Kuwait and Qatar are right next door. Im sceptical that the greater "secret police" powers of an autocracy would be a sufficient safeguard.
VDH is talking about IEDs, not terrorist attacks such as those you mention. And I suspect that in Iraq lot of Iraqis look other way when they see somebody planting IED, something that wouldn't happen in other Gulf countries.