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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?
Mo Barghouty is our rep to Qatar. He’s a hold over from Biden regime. I can guess what Mo is short for. He’s probably a moo slim snake.
In Trumpland, MONEY SPEAKS. Enter Qatar.
And Trump’s influencial advisors Tucker Qatarlson, Qonflicted Qushner and Dimwittkoff all are heavily invested in Qatar.
Qatar as in Hamas-linked al jihadzeera, the GGG (Genocidal Gaza Government) real ally, Qatar who pose as “negotiaters.”
If Vance or anybody else in Trump’s administration has anything to do with this then that should come out and their career(s) should be over permanently. They can always grift for attention and money over at Al Tuckerzeera.
Trump has been great, truly outstanding, but no one is ever beyond reproach. Trump is ultimately responsible and the buck stops with him. Maybe he should not fly in Qatari `gifts?’ He’d better get to cleaning up what is possible from this terrible mess and soon, as in he had better already be working on it.
Yep, Trump has a lot of explaining to do about his and his families deals with Qatar because it looks like they have been bought off.
Maybe Trump is just holding the enemies close. Or maybe he has a major weakness when oit comes to dealing with islamist savages.
Brilliant article! I hope everyone forwards this to many others as there is little doubt it’s not being intelligently covered elsewhere.
How many American lives?
We’ve watched Trump’s indifference to thousands being slaughtered in Iran and his tepid reply to the killings and the ease with which he abandoned the Iranian people..
He is morally complicit because in spite of the evidence he believed the regime.
What Iran is doing to those protesters they captured makes death a preferred option as Trump has moved on flying into Davos in his Trump-Qatari jet.
Being abandoned and left in the clutches of the ruthless Iranian regime and also Trump working hand in glove with the other despicable regimes in that region fundamentally should be a warning to Americans. We too can become victims of this foreign policy and we will receive nothing more than the same abandonment as others. Dead, buried and let’s move on.
Trump did not fly into Davos on his gifted Qatari jet!….Air Force One had to turn around because of a minor electrical issue…He was put on a smaller plane typically used for domestic travel.
Please get your facts straight before posting .
You get the point; don’t try obfuscating it since we know that’s his usual form of travel. and what it represents.
Money and the corrupt, bought and paid for Jews around Trump?
Boo hoo. It is precisely Jared and Witkoff who exposed Trump to Qatar and made all the necessary arrangements for Qatar to buy Trump in between his two terms. Don’t like it? Tough.
Similar to Ancient Greece and Rome. Co-opting the rich oligarchs. The oldest trick in the books. Probably similar to other ancient cultures as well, whose literature (if any) I haven’t read (or couldn’t stand reading 🙂
Great overview of the disaster we’re witnessing on multiple fronts in the Middle East. But I think the sub title of this article is a bit one-sided. It seems that oftentimes when conservatives write about matters where Trump is weak, they frame this presumably strong, determined, man as having no culpability in the matter at hand.
Trump is not, or at least should not be, a passive player in anything. Qatar cannot hijack anything if Trump and other power brokers in the administration don’t allow it. Saying Qatar is hijacking this sounds as if Trump is passive and without agency.
Rather than Qatar hijacking our foreign policy in the Middle East, I would be more blunt and put the responsibility where it belongs; Trump is doing a horrible job in the Middle East, has compromised himself by aligning with evil actors in the Islamic world. and appears naive and/or able to be seduced and corrupted. (Among other things, major players in the ME seem to know how to lay it on thick for his infinitely needy ego, and they do. And Trump seems to drink it up.)
It’s hard to understand why he picks bumbling fools (at best) like Witkoff to lead efforts of massive import, but that is what he’s doing. And, as noted in the article, there are people in Trump’s inner circle who are problematic (from Vance to Tucker and others in between). But Trump is not some passive person to be manipulated. He obviously has strong ideas about a lot of things. And yet, he goes sideways in the Middle East.
Who could have imagined that we would go to sleep at night with as much anxiety as when Obama was in office, but I know many people now who do, including myself.
In sum, he’s screwing up, making threats and not following through, emboldening the kind of outrageous evil that is pervasive throughout the Islamic world.
(It’s also curious to look at how certain pieces are falling into place… Tucker and Charlie lobbying hard for Vance to be Trump’s veep, TPUSA recently came out early to endorse Vance for president, Tucker visiting the WH two times in two weeks, and so on. Wheels are turning to position things according to dangerously wrong-headed people which is setting us up for bad things to come.)
Trump’s sucking up to the Muslims is definitely his achilles heel.
Trump’s sucking up to the Muslims is definitely his achilles heel.
Military intervention in Iran would be counterproductive. If the Iranian people want change they will have to effect it themselves. Look what happened when we got rid of Assad in Syria. The Iranian people are probably better off if we don’t get involved.
Let’s hope you are never in the position of reaching out for help, having a powerful person say that help is coming and then leave you to be imprisoned, tortured, and your life ruined.
Iran is not Syria and the bulk of the Iranian people protesting wanted the Islamic regime replaced with Shah Reza Pahlavi. Of course, Trump dismissed him but that has to do with geopolitics and Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye. Reza Pahlavi wants Iran returned to the people, the stabilization of the country and them moving to become a democratic nation. What clandestine leverage is there for a man desiring to be reunited with his homeland and people? Not the kind needed to benefit to the Middle Eastern Islamic Czars like Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye.
These Iranian people have known where they want to go. They just wanted this psychopathic regime off of their backs. That could have been strategically, incisively done and Reza returned. If the US lacked that military creativity, Israel could have provided many suggestions. Reza just doesn’t fit the profile the Islamist-Globalists must have.ruling the country. Islamic nations having strategic alliances with the globalists benefiting them will remain until they achieve their goals. Then, like turning off a light switch they will pivot according to their Quran and coalesce their power toward Islamic rule throughout the globe.
Yeah, I guess knowing the true motivations of these countries and Trump’s facilitation of them, does render Iranian lives and their freedom unimportant
Trumps Syrian replacement, Al Sharaa drips with innocent blood and his government facilitated rampages are wiping out Syrians daily and he’s welcomed in the White House as though removing the blood stained Jihadi clothing removed all of the rest of it.
Don’t kid yourself, Trump deliberately reneged in helping the Iranians in order to keep this regime in place. The truth is often not pretty but looking it straight in tge eye is humanity’s only hope. Justifying Trump’s betrayal of these people is not only a betrayal of the Iranians, it is a betrayal of America as well…one jumbo jet, inked deals with them in America and their infiltration continues.
It remains to be seen what Trump may do with Iran. I don’t think this is over.
I hope you’re right!
Because Qatar owns Witkoff lock, stock, and barrel, and Trump listens to Witkoff.
Do not forget Jared. While you’re at it, do a little research on “Qatargate”, in Israel.
In 2026, Donald Trump considers himself to be the most powerful leader/influencer/deal maker in the world.
Around 3,500 years ago, the king of Egypt considered himself to be without rival, rival including the God of Israel.
Why is Trump hardening his heart towards Israel? Why is he promoting a Board of Fake Palestine, an ironic ‘ingathering’ of all of Israel’s enemies?
Pharaoh had conjurors and masters of illusion who could fake a plague, but only up to a point.
Trump has his conjurors and masters of illusion faking a genocide, a famine, but only up to a point.
Trump is very close to reaching, or may have already reached, that point.
The money, the lies, the evil players have been clearly exposed. It is obvious that the Gaza war against Israel- land, people, Torah and the one God – was intended as the inaugural event to spearhead a global war against Israel.
We don’t know what’s going to happen with, to paraphrase comedian Richard Lewis, this ‘Board of Peace from Hell’.
Ancient Egypt’s Pharoah’s interests conflicted with God’s. We know what happened. God’s interests trumped Pharaoh’s. Does Trump think he’s different, that, unlike all ’pharaohs’ who have preceded him, he alone cannot be trumped? What’s his precedent?
Well, as the great philosopher Yogi Berra said, “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over”.
Am Yisrael Chai.
We know that God uses leaders to facilitate His end times. We know these end times will be terrible. God put Trump there for His purposes. For good or evil.
Why is he hardening his heart? Because my tribe is, by and large, fin de seicle and is near its end. Deep corruption is one characteristic of societies, belief systems and polities in terminal decline.
All I know is that every country is unstable
Territorial
Different takes on being a Muslim
And they hate each other
As much as they hate Israel and the US.
But they love death of others
There is a bigger picture somehow about Qatar than the obvious
I love Trump and most of his foreign policy, but it is obvious that he, like most Western politicians, does not understand that Muslims are not driven by the same motivations and morals as we are. He seems to be oblivious to the Islamic drive for world domination, and their willingness to be deceitful to achieve that goal. He is trying to deal with the Islamic world in the same way he deals with the rest of the world, not realizing that all people are not similarly motivated. Holding my breath…
He definitely has a blind spot when it comes to Hejira, Taqiyya, Sharia and Caliphtae. Is he ignorant? Is he bought off by promises of billions for his offspring? Are his advisors compromised again? It’s devastating to think about the thousands of Iranians mowed down in the streets because they heard Trump tell them to protest and his help was on the way.
The democrats will destroy the republicans in the midterms and in the next presidential election, Trump has seen to that. Never has a president directly lied to the people of any country trying to rid themselves of tyrant leaders. But Trump did. Many times. “Help is on the way” will never again be thought of as an iron-clad promise of America’s help to topple a murderous regime.
Once the democrats take back the House, Trump will be the lamest of lame ducks. Nobody will care what he has to say. The House will impeach him and he will be history. The Epstein file will be safely tucked away so that the billionaires will be spared the shame of being revealed and jailed.
All because Trump couldn’t keep his word to the Iranian patriots with Qatar pulling his strings. Disgusting. Give back the stinking 747, Donald. It reeks of quid pro qou. You are the president. Act like one. Do you want to be remembered as a great president? Or the president who betrayed the people of Iran? Are you a man or Qatar’s water boy?
The democrat’s motto for 2026 and 2028: “Trump Lied, Iranians Died.”
And every republican will be tainted by it.
if the lips of arabs are moving you know straight up they are lying . you would think that with all the so called advisors that the don has at his disposal he would know that . unfortunately the don has bombed and gone done the path of all his predecessors believing that detente will win the day . as prof. dan schueftan quoted , you cant deal with barbarians . ie [ muslims ] his statement was in reference to the arabs in gaza but applies equally to all of ishmaels progeny . gen. 16 v 12 . the dons ignorance of islam and historical fact is very disappointing .
Many people in Iran have converted to Christianity. So, it is our brothers and sisters in Christ who are dying. Being slaughtered and massacred as they stand up to islamofaacists. Think about it. In the time you’ve read this 5-10 more are dead.