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You’re gonna get downvoted but I don’t think you’re altogether wrong. If the World Cup gets hit by extremists, Qatar’s reputation will be hit harder than anything else.

Who now blames anyone but Germany and its incompetence for Black September’s actions in the 1972 Munich Olympics?




I have never heard anyone blame the 1972 Munich Olympics terrorist attack on the Federal Republic of Germany's lack of authoritarian state surveillance powers, their lack of motivation to keep track of the exact location of every foreign person in the country, nor on the fact that they did not require every single visitor to surrender the contents of all their personal documents for potential state scanning.




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