From Syria to Gaza to Iran, Qatar is hijacking the Trump administration.
Syria’s Al Qaeda regime is massacring Kurds to free imprisoned ISIS terrorists, state sponsors of Hamas in Turkey and Qatar are being named to boards running Gaza and thousands of democracy protesters are being massacred in Iran while Al Jazeera defends the regime.
This isn’t American foreign policy, but it is Qatar’s foreign policy.
The White House’s foreign policy in the Muslim world is now virtually identical to Qatar’s foreign policy apart from Israel. And as thousands die in Iran after empty promises of support, there is a bigger picture here of institutional capture by a tiny and powerful Islamic terrorist state.
Viewed in isolation, the refusal to intervene in Iran might be mistaken for a determination to concentrate on America and China, but that does not explain why the Trump administration has dedicated time and prestige to propping up the Al Qaeda leader of Syria to the point of helping him out by releasing and importing ISIS terrorists to America.
Nor does it explain a convoluted plan for Gaza in which a top Qatari official supportive of Hamas and notorious for his alleged links to spying operations using ex-CIA agents to the ‘Gaza Executive Board’ and the entire plan to reconstruct Gaza. It’s certainly not helping Israel which has been vocal in opposing Qatar and fellow Hamas state sponsor Turkey from playing a role.
Nor does it even begin to explain why we’re negotiating with the Taliban to go back into Afghanistan with a U.S. military presence for ‘counterterrorism’ purposes when the terrorists whom we’re negotiating with, much as in Syria, are the ones in charge of the country.
There is a consistent throughline here and it isn’t America First, it isn’t ‘isolationism’, it isn’t Israel and it isn’t MAGA, but it very much is Qatar along with its Islamist allies: Turkey and Iran. And this throughline has an ominous similarity to Obama’s New Middle East policy and the way that it consistently empowered Islamist takeovers and protected Iran’s Islamist terror regime.
If we’re not intervening in Iran because we’re non-interventionists, why are we intervening then on behalf of Islamists everywhere from Syria to Gaza? Much as under Obama, who chose to intervene in Libya and Egypt, but not in Iran, the consistent pattern here is one of propping up Islamists, whether through intervention or non-intervention, with inconsistent rationalizations.
Iranian protesters are being massacred, Hamas and Al Qaeda are being propped up, not because it serves our national interests, but because it serves Qatar’s Jihadist agenda.
Qatar’s foreign policy objectives have been consistent and clear. It elevates and props up Islamic Jihadists and then offers its services in ‘negotiating’ with them. That means bringing an Al Qaeda affiliate to power in Syria, bringing the Taliban to power in Afghanistan through a fake deal during the first Trump administration, helping Hamas maximize its gains from Oct 7, and preserving the Islamic terrorist regime of the Ayatollahs that it is allied with in Tehran.
The MAGA revolution jettisoned much of the ‘foreign policy blob’ that Qatar had spent billions cultivating through investments in institutions like ‘Brookings’, and what replaced it was a refreshing breath of common sense in some arenas, but by the second term, the National Security Council and elements of the Pentagon had been poisoned by Koch appointees allied with Soros organizations which were in turn intertwined with Iranian foreign agents.
Qatar may have lost its original foreign policy blob, but it replaced it with a more ramshackle collection of businessmen with special access and special interests who echoed the same old Obama foreign policy of propping up Islamists while pretending they were something new.
The style was different, but the substance has proven to be the same.
President Trump’s foreign policy is good globally, when it confronts China, demands more responsibility from NATO, and challenges Latin American Marxist dictatorships, but that is the official State Department foreign policy as implemented by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. When it comes to the Middle East however, there is a rogue foreign policy that has little in common with America First or Trump, but looks a whole lot like Obama’s old policies.
When it came to the Middle East, foreign policy was outsourced to shady operators like Tom Barrack and Steven Witkoff who were seen as having a better handle on the region because they had done business there. No one ever got around to vetting their actual interests.
Whatever their agendas are, there is little doubt about what they’ve done and who benefits.
What ISIS couldn’t accomplish in Syria with suicide bombings, it managed to pull off by putting Al-Jolani, now Ahmed Al-Sharaa, in a suit, and the world watched while ISIS terrorists were sprung from their jails, much as the Taliban had freed Al Qaeda and ISIS terrorists after Qatar masterminded a deal with the Taliban that, much like Hamas, they were never going to keep.
The path to Al Qaeda’s Syria hegemony was paved with ‘Ambassador’ Tom Barrack lectured on the importance of allowing the Sunni Islamists to consolidate control over Syria. This was obviously in the interests of Turkey’s Islamist terrorist regime, which was obsessed with crushing the Kurds, and of Qatar’s Jihadist ambitions, but it has never been explained why any of this is in our interest any more than the Islamist takeovers of Egypt, Libya and other nations in the region had become the objective of our foreign policy under Obama.
There are areas around the world where an America First policy couldn’t be any clearer, but that is not remotely true in the Middle East where our foreign policy is wildly inconsistent. Indeed, the best way to understand our foreign policy in the Middle East is that Qatar has gotten its way on everything except Israel, where it only gets 60% of its way, and is scrambling to do away with it.
Much of the current hysteria about Jews and Israel among MAGA influencers can be understood as a Qatari campaign to consolidate its control over foreign policy in the region.
Leftists, libertarians and members of the woke right who shared little except hostility toward America fused together into their own ideological blob in which Tucker Carlson can interview anti-Trump UN officials like Jeffrey Sachs and Muslim dictators, while Robert Malley, Obama’s disgraced Soros Iran negotiator whose scandal involving the mishandling of classified information was covered up by the Biden administration, can stop by to be interviewed by a veteran of a Soros pro-terrorist site at American Conservative, a ‘conservative media’ outlet which had also claimed that creating a ‘Palestinian’ state was in America’s national interest.
This isn’t MAGA, it’s not America First, it’s Obama sneaking back in wearing a red cap. And the same domestic and foreign enemies who were behind that one are behind this one too.
The question of Israel is a distraction from the real subject, the one that we’re not talking about, of why we’re propping up Al Qaeda and Iran, and what it really means about who’s in control of foreign policy. No amount of fulminating about the vanished ‘neoconservatives’, a group that only exists in the editorial section of the Washington Post, by the guilty can distract us forever.
The real question is why are we supporting Islamic terrorists and who’s calling the shots?
Iran and Gaza are a fault line. They mark the fracture between America First and Qatar. Qatar has won and lost battles over the air strikes on Iran and Gaza, but now it’s winning the war on both. And that’s bad news not just for Iranian protesters or Israel, it’s bad news for America.
Al Qaeda’s consolidation of control over Syria will cost us as will the survival of the Iranian regime. American foreign policy had two points, defeating terrorists and keeping the Persian Gulf clear, and the Qatar First foreign policy is wrecking both of our interests in the region.
While the Pentagon chases phantom ISIS encampments, Jihadists in suits are once again taking power as they did under Obama’s Middle East, and it won’t be long before we pay the price once again as we did back then and after Qatar negotiated a deal with the Taliban.
The Trump administration is not the first administration to be torn apart by malicious factions and the best evidence of that is how different Trump’s great foreign policy in Asia, Europe and Latin America is from his policy in the Middle East. The president is being badly served by infiltrators acting on behalf of special interests and it’s time to clean Qatar out of MAGA.
Before the Islamic terrorists being unleashed by our Qatari foreign policy don’t just kill 3 Americans in Syria, as they recently did, but once again kill 3,000 Americans in the United States. Qatar harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the September 11 attacks.
Rather than learning our lesson from 9/11, we let Qatar control our policy. And the only question is how many have to die this time before we take back our foreign policy from the terrorists?
Wellington says
If the best of humanity is to prevail, America must be dominant in setting the agenda and certainly not a polity like Qatar. Never can the Islamic world, any of it, be relied upon to direct matters for mankind. To allow this would be nothing short of pure folly since Islam is a supremacist and totalitarian religious belief system which is a mortal enemy of what made America and Western Civilization at its best so great.
Verdict still out. Wish it weren’t. It shouldn’t be.
And I really have begun to wonder exactly what Trump knows and what he doesn’t. I still allow for the possibility that Trump knows exactly what he is doing where the Islamic world is concerned, but I have to consider the alternative, now don’t I? Damn, I quest for certainty here and presently it eludes me.
James Lincoln says
Wellington says,
“…Islam is a supremacist and totalitarian religious belief system which is a mortal enemy of what made America and Western Civilization at its best so great.”
You might also say:
Today’s Democratic Party is a supremacist and totalitarian “belief system which is a mortal enemy of what made America and Western Civilization at its best so great”.
Wellington says
Yes, James, I would definitely say that about the modern Democratic Party which has become as mortal an enemy of America as Islam, arguably even more so than Mo’s warped creed.
gravenimage says
+1
Rob Porter says
Wellington, the verdict is IN, in respect of Israel and the Middle East, Donald Trump is proving a disgusting traitor. Delighted when Trump won the last election, I now regard him a fraud. We watched as Saudi Prince bin Salman convinced Trump to meet with the former al-Qaeda leader, al-Jolani, recently converted to al-Sharaa – who would have cheered as the Twin Towers came crashing down and Americans died! We watched as Trump then shook al-Sharaa’s bloodstained hand and agreed to lift U.S. sanctions on Syria – and this days after Al-Shaa’s Muslims butchered to death Alawites, Chistians and others.
Since then al-Sharaa’s Muslim savages have brutally murdered THOUSANDS of minorities, Alawites, Christians, Druze Kurds, in one case with mutilated bodies stacked up like logs – men, women and children – and Trump’s vile Tom Barrack is okay with this. Hopefully someone will blow Barrack apart – I hope painfully!
This a a very good article that exposes Trump’s treachery. My hope that Trump would lead a sort of anti-Islam crusade is now well and truly over. He is in bed with Muslims and Islam and is a man of low moral character.
With yet another rotten U.S. president like Barack Obama, God help Israel – and God help America.
Tony says
Unfortunately, President Trump and our Western Leaders are compromised by Muslim Oil-Money Countries, Groups, and Persons. Instead, President Trump needs to identify and to declare the 50+ Islamic Countries as CRIMINAL-TERRORIST-STATE ENTERPRISES against Non-Muslims for their funding, teaching, promoting, and supporting Muslim discrimination, segregation, violence, and terrorism as taught in Islam’s Qur’an(Qur’an 9:5, 29, 111; 49:15; 98:6-7, etc.). Plus, our Leaders must establish a Legal Threshold or Standard for what qualifies as a Religion for Tax Purposes and Legal Purposes under our Western Constitutions. Islam is against our Constitutions.
SUPREMACIST ISLAM IS ANTICHRIST, AHISTORICAL, DECEITFUL, MILITARISTIC, AND POLITICAL against the USA Constitution and Western Laws to conquer and to subjugate Non-Muslims using MUSLIM-TERRORIST-CRIMINAL-GANG ENTERPRISES with ISLAMIC LAW(SHARIA) and with CONTINUOUS, TERROR PROPAGANDA from Islam’s Qur’an as evidenced by the continuous Muslim attacks to make Islam supreme(Qur’an 2:191; 3:28, 54; 4:89-91; 7:99; 8:30, 60; 9:5, 29,111; 16:106, etc.). Islam, an enemy of Non-Muslims, teaches, incites, and promotes murder, lies, deceit, accusations, and slander against Non-Muslims as taught in Islam’s Qur’an.
Deceitful Allah affirms Non-Muslims as enemies of Allah while Muslims continuously undermine a society from within using their man-made Qur’an with lies, obfuscation, and deceit(Qur’an 2:225; 3:54; 7:99; 8:30; 60:4, etc.). Allah in Qur’an 4:101 says, “…Surely the infidels[Non-Muslims] were your clear enemies.” Allah expects all Muslim believers to war against all non-Muslims until the Unbelievers convert to Islam or face Muslim violence. Corrupt Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” As a result, Non-Muslims are marked for death by Islam and its Muslims.
Worthless Islam is a civilization-destroying, delusional, indoctrinating, cancerous fraud because there is NO MECCA, NO MUHAMMAD, and NO Qur’an in the 7th century AD in Saudi Arabia despite the Muslim Standard Islamic Narrative claims; the Deceitful House of Islam is founded on propaganda, lies, intimidation, and deceit where Islam’s 1400-year traditions are based on fallacy and myth including a more than 300-year gap with no documented history. Hence, NEVER give money to Islamic Countries, Islamic Organizations, Mosques, Islamic Schools, etc. because your are funding your ultimate destruction. Islam must be banned as illegal, and we have the legal right to defend ourselves from Muslim violence.
Islam’s Muslims are to be Seditionist Terrorists for Allah with their MONEY and their LIVES. Allah in Qur’an 49:15 teaches, “Surely the believers[Muslims] are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed jihad with their MONEY and their LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.” Again, Islam is a FACTITIOUS IDEOLOGY and CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION despicably fabricated over time into the 21sth century, and there is NO PEACE only genocidal obliteration with Islam and its deceitful Muslims(Qur’an 7:18; 8:39: 9:5, 29, 111; 11:119; 32:13; 47:4, etc.).
Demonic ALLAH claims MUSLIMS are a greater TERROR than serpentine Allah in Islam’s Qur’an. Allah in Qur’an 59:13 says, “You[Muslims] are a greater terror in their chests than Allah. This is because they[Jews & Christians] are people who do not understand.” Allah in Qur’an 9:29 commands, “Engage in war with those who do not believe in Allah nor in the last day. Nor forbid what Allah and his messenger forbid, nor believe in the religion of the truth among those who have given the book until they pay the jizyah out of hand and they are subdued.”
Islam, its Mosques, its Schools, its Sharia Courts, its Organizations, etc. are Terrorist-Criminal Enterprises of hatred and enmity against all Non-Muslims as totalitarian Islam, the House of Satan, islamizes the society with impunity(Qur’an 2:225; 5:14, 64; 60:4; 9:5, 29, 111, etc.). As taught from Islam’s Qur’an, Islam should be banned for its incitement, funding, and promotion of hybrid warfare, violence, terrorism, criminality, hatred, human trafficking, and discrimination against women, children, and Non-Muslims.
Allah describes Muslim women in Jenna, Allah’s Paradise, as whores of Allah in Qur’an 56:37. Also, Allah stirs hatred, cursing, and punishment against Christians until the resurrection day as Qur’an 5:14 instructs, “And some of those who say, ‘Surely we are Nasara (Christians),’ we took their covenant. So they have forgotten a part of what they were reminded of, so we have stirred up ENMITY and HATRED among them until the resurrection day. And Allah will inform them of what they were doing.” See also Qur’an 2:225; 60:4; 8:55.
Wellington says
Tony: Yes, Islam is awful in sundry ways but what is even more awful is not realizing that Islam is awful.
But this is exactly what has occurred in the West over the past half century or so and especially over the past quarter century. For some 1300+ years Western Civilization “got” Islam but then the West went into stupid mode about so many things from the 1960s onwards. I have to wonder if there is still time to correct this descent into suicidal destruction, as evidenced best by not only allowing for exculpation of Islam but for the transformation of modern Western liberalism (which from my conservative perspective still wanted too much government but nonetheless still retained good things like common sense and informed patriotism) into rank Leftism and which is just Marxism and similar rot in disguise.
On the cusp. Oh yeah, verdict still out. Not looking very good. All could be lost. Yes, all.
James Lincoln says
Wellington says,
“All could be lost. Yes, all.”
To your point…
If Harris and Walz had gotten in for an eight-year swing – followed by someone like Newsom – the United States of America would never recover.
Rick Gordon says
I favor a pragmatic, realistic approach to our foreign affairs. In some cases it means working with nations that we do not approve of. Certainly that is the example of Qatar. However, we should aggressively discourage US universities from taking funds and/or any academic direction from them. I strongly disapprove of Trump sourcing an aircraft from them. In no way should we be supporting ISIS groups (Syria) or others of their ill (Pakistan, Afghanistan).
gravenimage says
We seldom have to work with countries like Qatar. Islam should be a =s isolated as possible.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Instead of Qatar, we could work w/ countries like Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Bahrein, Emirates, Oman…..
࿗Infidel࿘ says
If the US is gonna follow Qatar’s policy on Iran, why send the navy group to the Persian Gulf? They could have just let it stay, and just tell the Iranian people that they’re on their own
The latest from Iran is that over 36,000 people were killed on January 8th and 9th during the nationwide protests. Now, Khamenei has gone into an underground bunker in Tehran. In other news, the viewership of Iran’s state broadcaster has collapsed to 12.5%, from whatever it was earlier. In the meantime, they are slow to restore the internet, since there is a whole bunch of dependencies that complicates the restoration
One good piece of news: the daughter of Iran’s top security official Ali Larijani, who worked at Emory University at Atlanta, has been terminated. Hopefully, she gets deported as well, and sent back to join her dad
gravenimage says
Why Are We Following Qatar’s Foreign Policy on Iran?
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Damn good question. Suicidal insanity.
jerry glenn says
Trump desperately needs different advisors on Islam and the Islamic world.