Victor Davis Hanson: The U.S. Needs to Reassess Its Relationship with Qatar and Turkey

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DAVIS HANSON: "Because Qatar is the base of the U.S. CENTCOM and we, for some reason, are wedded to the idea that this duplicitous 'ally' has some leverage on us because we rent facilities in Qatar that are valuable in the Middle East. But it’s analogous to Turkey. Turkey is pro-Hamas, we have a big air force base, it's a NATO member. It's anti-democratic now. It’s anti-European. And I think when this is all over, this government needs to take a close look at U.S. relations with both Turkey and Qatar, because if we came from another planet and we just looked empirically at the way they have acted and their attitudes and who were their allies and who were their enemies, they I think you would almost call them belligerent to the United States. And yet we consider them allies because they have leverage over us, because we have bases there. We don’t want those bases -- I know they are  very strategically valuable and we have invested a lot of money in them, but in a long run they're going to be liabilities because these governments are anti-American."