What? Why have I not heard that before? Because no one screaming about Qatar has any interest in telling you the truth, which is that Donald Trump, who was elected on a peace program, and it’s been a little tougher than expected to make good on that, still means it.
Donald Trump has taken sides in the Qatar/Israel dispute. And it is actually more than a dispute. It became a military conflict on September 9th. Israel bombed Qatar. Qatar, by the way, is the site, in case you’re wondering if they were an ally or not, of the largest U.S. Airbase in the entire region, right outside Doha. There are like 10,000-ish American troops who live in Qatar. They bear a lot of costs for that, by the way. It’s a pretty nice thing to do. It makes you a target when you have an American military base, but they have the largest in the whole region. So they are by definition a close ally. And Israel bombs them, kills people in downtown Doha, and doesn’t apologize for it.
And why’d they do that? Because Donald Trump was working to bring peace between Iran and Israel, and Israel didn’t want that at all. And so they tried to murder the negotiators in that round of peace talks from Hamas in Doha. And then they tried to tell the world that actually Trump signed off on this. You know, Trump knew. Totally false. Trump did not know. Not only did they do this, they tried to implicate Trump in it. And he responded a couple of weeks later with an executive order.
He signed an executive order, and this is verbatim, called the “Assuring the Security of the State of Qatar.” We’re quoting: “Over the years, the United States and the State of Qatar have been bound together by close cooperation, shared interests, and the close relationship between our armed forces. The state of Qatar has hosted United States forces, enabled critical security operations, and stood as a steadfast ally in pursuit of peace, stability, and prosperity both in the Middle East and abroad, including as a mediator that has assisted the United States’ attempts to resolve significant regional and global conflicts.”
Listen to this: “In recognition of this history and in light of the continuing threats to the state of Qatar posed by foreign aggression, it is the policy of the U.S. to guarantee the security and territorial integrity of the State of Qatar against external attack. The United States shall regard any armed attack on the territory sovereignty or critical infrastructure of the State of Qatar as a threat to the peace and security of the United States.”
What was the last act of foreign aggression against Qatar? Well, it happened that exact same month. It was a bombing by Israel.
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Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson is an American television host and conservative political commentator.
