Congratulations, FIFA

We're going to skip the Russia part, and congratulate you for picking Qatar as the venue for the 2022 World Cup, where it is illegal to be drunk in public. Now, I understand that technically in America and other countries, which don't really matter because they're not America, "public intoxication" is a crime, but something tells me that the Turban Tops interpret this law a little differently.

Go ahead and check out the State Department's page on Americans traveling to Qatar here, but I'm going to present a few highlights of it for you below:

"U.S. citizens are strongly encouraged to avoid labor or work camps, where unrest can occur due to local working conditions or labor grievances."

Labor and work camps? Sounds like North Korea. This oil rich land must have tons of money if they get to host the WC with labor and work camps.

"Other locations of potential concern (relative to terrorist attacks, my insertion) include any venue where U.S. citizens and other foreigners are known to congregate in large numbers such as public assemblies, sporting events, restaurants, residential areas, clubs, places of worship, schools, hotels, etc."

Did you just read that? A piece of me thinks that this should not just be targeted at Americans, but at all Westerners. Don't gather in large groups, like going to a World Cup match to see your team play.

"Local and third-country-national young men have been known to verbally and physically harass unaccompanied, expatriate women."

"Insulting someone in public is considered a punishable offense."

How about that? Insulting someone in public is a punishable offense. Also, not that you should be anywhere alone in a foreign country anyway, but to have to mention that on the State Department's website that women by themselves tend to get verbally and physically harassed says something about the state of a culture.

Drunk driving, public intoxication, and other alcohol-related offenses are treated with severity and will result in arrest, heavy fines, imprisonment, or expulsion from the country.

How many drunk-soccer-hooligan Europeans are going to end up in work camps? I think them all. Being tolerant of others and showing that you're reaching out to the other side is great, if you're not an idiot about it, but this country is run by Islamic law. That's fantastic that it's got more money than Davy Crockett, but people will die, and America still runs this bitch. Who is running FIFA?