Conservatives are making this nation weaker. And if you needed proof, look no further than the recent spectacle over Qatar building an air-force facility at a U.S. base in Idaho.
If the conservative idea of patriotism includes rolling out the red carpet for foreign militaries on our sovereign soil, you might want to reassess your “America First” bumper sticker. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has signed off on allowing the Qatari Emiri Air Force to build a facility at the Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho, so their pilots can train alongside U.S. soldiers.
Hegseth assured everyone that Qatar will not have their own base in the United States and that the US will control the existing base. let’s surrender the optics of sovereignty while claiming we’re still in charge. It’s like letting somebody crash on your couch, telling them they can’t redecorate, and then being surprised when your home loses all character.
What’s the rationale? Combined training? Increased lethality? But when you go in with a regime that has questionable human rights practices and whose interests don’t always align with ours, you don’t wave a white flag and invite them in you apply strategic caution, leverage, and boundaries. Conservatives nowadays have apparently misplaced the art of negotiating from strength.
The Qatar-in-Idaho incident is just one more data point in a growing dossier. What conservatives often call principled restraint too often translates into appeasement, moral equivalence, or outright passivity.
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