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Fabulously rich from the sale of its natural gas — it has the third largest gas reserves in the world, after Russia and Iran — the Emirate of Qatar has perfected the art of winning influence through what is demurely called “soft power,” that is, the kind of power that not armies, but only money can buy. Since 2012, Qatar has spent $72 million for Washington lobbyists, which is more than any other country has spent in that time, in order to help make its case in the corridors of Congressional power. When some Congressmen accuse Qatar of “harboring senior officials of Hamas,” which it does, Qatar rolls out other congressmen, who have received briefings and money from those K Street lobbyists, who remind their colleagues that Qatar allows the United States to maintain its largest military base in the Middle East — the Al-Udeid Airbase — and invests so very much in American securities. Shouldn’t those facts outweigh all other considerations?
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