Peloni: It is difficult to argue with anything stated here. The Qataris have played the role of a major destabilizing force in the region and have earned the well sewn enmity with which it is generally held by its neighbors, both near and far. But one point which should be shouldered in making this argument is that
With Trump’s Executive Order, America Has Allied Itself Not with a Partner for Peace, but an Agent for Instability
Gregg Roman | Middle East Forum | October 2, 2025
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President Donald Trump’s September 29, 2025, executive order granting Qatar a NATO-style security guarantee is a strategic blunder built on a foundation of fantasy. The order cites the need to protect Qatar from “continuing threats … posed by foreign aggression.” The question is, what threats? What foreign aggression? The State of Qatar is not a victim in the Middle East; it is a source of the instability that plagues the region. The only “foreign aggression” it should fear is the consequence of its own policies.
For decades, the Qatari regime has perfected a cynical and dangerous double game. It hosts the Al Udeid Air Base, giving it the veneer of being a Western ally while it serves as the world’s most significant financier of the Muslim Brotherhood and its terrorist offshoots. The leaders of Hamas, the perpetrators of the October 7, 2023, massacre, do not hide in caves; they hold press conferences from the lobbies of luxurious Doha hotels, their lifestyles and operations underwritten by the same monarchy the United States now swears to protect. This security pact creates the possibility that an Israeli operation to eliminate a Hamas leader in Doha could be officially regarded as “a threat to the peace and security of the United States.” It is a strategic absurdity of the highest order.
Qatar’s aggression is not limited to terror financing. It has waged a patient, multibillion-dollar war of ideas against the West, using its state-funded narrative machine Al Jazeera to spread antisemitic and anti-American propaganda. It has poured billions of dollars into universities in a campaign of ideological subversion, poisoning the well of our public discourse and creating the campus environment where genocidal chants now become “social justice.”
This executive order cannot stand. The path to its revocation requires a new, coordinated campaign, a coalition of the aggrieved led by the victims of Qatari statecraft. This fight must be waged not with arms, but with the potent, democratic weapons of truth, law, and political pressure.
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