Paul Rogers
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And I think it may be a barrel for quite a lot of damage.
And, of course, there is more anti-American feeling around in the region.
But we mustn't forget that the major paramilitary groups still active in countries like Iraq, which are actually pretty favorable to Iran.
And, of course, one of the real developments in Iraq in recent years was
has been an increase among many ordinary Iraqis for support for Iran and sort of an anger that Americans are playing such a big role.
Most Americans have withdrawn from Iraq in the last few weeks, but there's still plenty there.
And it's quite possible there may be attacks against them as well.
No, I don't think the Gulf states are going to start throwing the Americans out of their bases, but they are very significant.
And, of course, I think Bahrain and Kuwait have taken some losses when American facilities have been hit.
And, of course, the Americans killed
a couple of nights ago were actually in Jordan, not in the total direct Gulf state.
The one interesting thing here is the most important, probably biggest American base in the entire region will be the Al Udeid Air Base, which is in Qatar.
Yes.
big base with American planes there and succeeded in destroying one of the key American air control planes and damaging five of their air refueling planes.
And one of the lessons of this war, which I think is going down very badly in some quarters in the United States, is the Americans were not prepared for it in terms of air defenses.
And their air defenses, let alone the Gulf state ones, are actually being intercepted on times and penetrated.
So the end result is that even here,
The Americans do not appear to have learned the lesson.
Do not underestimate your foe in the Middle East, particularly when that foe is Iran with, what, 95 million people and a sense of history to it.
And that is the kind of thing which we tend to forget in these areas.
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