Do you approve of Qatar building an air force base in the United States?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

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[NameAlreadyTaken]

1. What's next, North Korea?

This gets more bizarre every day.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Absolutrly not. Is this a Quo for some Trump Quid?

[sheshe2]

8. Da plane and...

In his first term, Trump slammed Qatar as a country that he said had been a “funder of terrorism at a very high level.” His perspective on the Middle Eastern country has apparently evolved quite a bit over eight years.

But the president’s shift has gone well beyond rhetorical praise. Politico reported:

Trump’s new executive order added that the U.S. was prepared to take “all lawful and appropriate measures — including diplomatic, economic and, if necessary, military — to defend the interests of the United States and the State of Qatar.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/maddow-blog-trump-offers-qatar-which-gave-him-a-fancy-plane-a-nato-like-security-guarantee/ar-AA1NK7ZP?ocid=BingNewsSerp

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[Abnredleg]

3. They're not building a base in the US

They are building a training facility (classrooms, admin buildings and hangers) at Mountain Home AFB to train pilots on the F15s we are selling them. It’ll be similar to the training facility built for the Singapore AF at Mountain Home when we sold them their F15s.

[Silent Type]

7. Facts don't matter.

[AZJonnie]

19. They always do to me :)

Glad we're getting the real story. I wonder if wingnuts ever self-correct on the web forums and twitter-type places they visit, or do false interpretations always get spread and allowed to stand unchallenged when they reflect badly on the left, no matter how ludicrous?

My guess would be typically the latter.

[OAITW r.2.0]

11. I bit before I read your post.

That's why I love DU....balance always get restored.

[Xavier Breath]

16. Good to know, thanks.

[flvegan]

23. The Outrage Factory will be displeased with this response. n/t

[MLAA]

4. Give an asshole a gaudy plane and get a military base. The art of the deal my ass, more like the fart of the deal.

Icing on the crap cake, is it will take $1B to retrofit the flying gilded paper tiger.

[The Blue Flower]

5. I'm in favor of whatever pulls off the mask

Traitors are running the government. Anything that makes that more clear is a net positive.

[sarisataka]

6. They are not building a base

They are building a facility on a base which several other countries already have at different US installations around the country It is part of a deal, negotiated by President Biden, not some quid pro quo.

In any case, what does it matter? Are we concerned a few Qatari pilots are going to take over Idaho?

[Baitball Blogger]

9. Didn't they support Hamas?

And we're allowing them to build an airport inside our borders?

It must be true that money can buy this Administration.

[EX500rider]

12. We aren't, they will have facilities at a US base like other countries who buy our jets with a training package included

[Baitball Blogger]

15. Having access to our facilities for training purposes and building their own airport are two very different things.

How did the media screw that up?

[Tetrachloride]

10. Another bonus for some construction company.

[Diraven]

14. I don't see the problem with it

It's just for training their pilots to fly the planes we sold to them. Except I'm sure Trump and other corrupt administration officials will be making a bunch of money from it. Bribes, kickbacks, and if course the golden jet Trump already got.

[Enter stage left]

17. Where is the choice that says...

FUCK NO!

[Glorious bastard]

18. Is this a new status symbol for the ME royalty?

Flaunting ownership of exclusive military air bases in the US?

Mansions in Beverly Hills and department stores in London are so pedestrian in the 21st century!

[Jack Valentino]

20. IT IS NOT "a base", but a facility at an existing U.S. base....

Let's let the MAGATs have their own freakout by themselves, shall we?
And not misstate the facts... they can do that without our help.

[oasis]

21. I guarantee Jared Kushner will get a piece of that

action if it happens.

[Kid Berwyn]

22. Somebody's making a petrodollar.

Merchants of Death and Oil, which amount to the same thing.