Vice President JD Vance appears on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the Israel/Hamas peace agreement over Gaza and other regional issues.
As noted by Vance, the Gulf Arab states are willing to provide boots on the ground to establish the security parameters for the Gaza area, as well as the vast majority of the funding to rebuild Gaza and monitor the stability therein. Additionally, Vice President Vance discussed the government shutdown and the ways President Trump and OMB Director Russ Vought are working through the process of funding priority. Tariff revenue will be a significant offset.
The conversation then goes to the Chinese trade actions and the new tariffs against Beijing. WATCH:
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Now Bondi and Wiles and all the other agents and lobbyists for Qatar won’t have far to go.
This is so messed up allowing a country that harbors terrorists leaders into our country
Vance explained that there is no “base” established for Qatar in Idaho. It is the training of their personnel on US soil in a facility set up for the purpose.
Qatar has maintained a training base in Florida for years. NATO trains in Texas. Dutch train in Montana. This is not unusual.
Stop reacting to manufactured outrage.
The Billionaires are playing you!
Most of us(?) have not been aware of the above training sites…!
Do some research. Look up Luke AFB. The US has provided pilot training there for the Taiwan AF for many years. This storyline is all bulls*it spread by unserious Dems and RINOS.
How many treepers here were active duty military at one point or another? Only a minority of the population has served and would preclude a lot of firsthand knowledge.
It wasn’t that unusual to me to know of our military hosting contingents of foreign servicemen specifically for training on U.S. battlefield tactics and weapon systems.
In our tiny church congregation of about 20, there are 8 veterans.
What people don’t know or understand could fill the universe.
Quick follow-up on training. Back in the early 2000’s I was doing some consulting work at Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield in Georgia. The army does (or did) a lot of tank training there. At the time, they were training Saudis on Abrams tanks. The hallways and classrooms in the training area all had boards and signs in Arabic. Not new for allies (even if barely) to train in the U.S. Also much easier to control.
Singapore already trains at the base in Idaho which will host Qatar soldiers.
We have over 700 bases in 80+ countries:
https://factodata.com/u-s-military-bases-abroad-global-presence-in-2025/
Compare that with number of foreign countries with bases on our soil. That number is ZERO.
Agree, manufactured outrage is a time suck, a useless distraction.
“Singapore already trains at the base in Idaho which will host Qatar soldiers.”
True
You are entirely correct. The U.S. has trained many foreign military personnel from many countries at our stateside bases going all the way back to WW2. Sometimes they are our formal allies and sometimes just other friendly countries. If you have been stationed almost anywhere in the U.S. in any service you have probably encountered foreign personnel attending our military schools in classes with our own personnel, participating in training exercises, and sometimes even having their own separate training facilities and barracks on our bases. There will be agreements in place on how those personnel are to conduct themselves on and off base and who is responsible for them. It is not unusual and the U.S. military has a great deal of experience with these kinds of arrangements.
No offense Sundance, I recognize that you’re a lot smarter than me, but I must agree with all those “reacting to manufactured outrage” by the news of sharing our land and our air with those who more than likely want to kill us.
However… back in the late 70’s while stationed at an army base (American) in Central Texas, while hitchhiking back to my base after an adventure in Mexico, I had the good fortune when I was picked up by two Iranian fighter pilots, who had also been in Mexico for a weekend jaunt.
That was when the Shah was still in power before the Ayatollah Khomeini led the overthrow in ’79. The two Iranians were training at Lackland in San Antonio. We see how well that training program turned out for us!
It did work out well for me though as we made great time, doing 105 MPH, until we were joined by three of their friends who passed us. We did the remainder of the trip side by side doing 110 taking turns who would be wingman.
I asked them if they were worried they’d get a ticket? They laughed and said, “Diplomatic Immunity!”
Even though I survived, “Billionaires” or not, I still don’t like it.
Iranian pilots at Sheppard AFB. TX in 1978.
Thanks Joan. I assumed it was Lackland.
The training programs for the Shah’s air force would not have had much negative impact on the U.S., if any. The Iranian Revolution brought about a purge of any military officer considered loyal to the Shah or pro-U.S. or pro-Western in general. Virtually all of their senior officers either fled or were murdered and much of the rest of their officer corps, quite likely including the pilots you met, were also forced to flee or were murdered or removed from service to civilian life with a cloud over their heads. The purge was so extensive that their air force was almost unable to perform during the early part of the Iran–Iraq War until they got new pilots trained by the Soviets and Red China and new aircraft supplied by them as well. Most of their American-supplied and other Western aircraft sat on the ground deteriorating for lack of spare parts, as well as the lack of pilots trained to fly them. So the training those men received in the U.S. in the 70s probably did not do the mullahs much good nor much harm to the interests of the U.S. or our allies.
Those men were likely misguided about having diplomatic immunity. There was probably something like a SOFA agreement in place meaning that if they got in trouble with the law they might not suffer any consequences from local authorities. But the embarrassment they might have caused could have gotten them sent home early without finishing their training and that would probably have been even worse for them.
I was in an Army course in the 80s that included a few lieutenants from another Muslim country. They decided to live it up while here and went out on the town boozing and chasing women almost every night. I’m sure the only reason they didn’t get any DUIs was because they didn’t have a car and were using taxis. They would show up for class hung over and bleary and started failing the course. The Army notified their embassy and some official showed up to have a talk with them. That seriously straightened them out for the remainder of their stay. They didn’t completely quit what they were doing (too much of a good opportunity to do what they couldn’t back home), but they kept it lower key and did manage to finish the course.
Thank you for your comments…. and for your service.
We were training Arab ally nations on our bases in the 80s. There’s literally nothing to this
When I was at Keesler AFB back in 1966, the electronics school trained troops from Iran for the year I was there.
At what point do you either just end all attempts at normal relations vs attempting to find common ground. We aren’t at war with Qatar, so we cannot establish unconditional surrender and then mandate their governing order. It’s a long term process to determine if we can establish partnerships with nations. Remember, we have neither permanent friends nor permanent enemies. But we will always have permanent interests.
My kid trains fighter pilots. Many of them are foreigners.
We train with a lot of nations.
My gosh. I remember meeting some Russian submariners when I served in the US Navy back in the early 90s.
Good job by V.P. Vance and Maria.
Can we trust those Arab boots on the ground? Asking for America…
Would you prefer those foreign pilots get their training someplace else? China? Russia? Someplace like that?
Wherever they train, that’s whose airplanes they are going to buy. That’s whose tactics they will adopt. That’s who they will hire for maintenance and spare-parts contracts.
The US is probably gaining more in developing long-term intel relationships with those Qatari pilots than those pilots are going to pick up while they are here.
I am not Israel First
Nor a Pro Qatar shill
Now we must defend Qatar if they are attacked
Did you know that?
And I don’t want this Qatari Base
If this is a long policy, End it
There is no reason they can’t be trained in Qatar
IDGAF about Qatar or Israel First crap
America First
While i wholeheartedly agree with your sentiments, I would point out, that America isolated is not First, its Alone.
However, America leading in international connections on terms beneficial to America’s economic and national security, is America First.
Do all our international partnerships, allies, deals and treaties meet those criteria? Unlikely.
With PDJT at least we know his goals are to keep America First in all its dealings.
The US already had mutual defense agreements and cooperation agreements with Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Iraq,Bahrain and Oman. There were already pre-existing agreements with Qatar. Pretty much every country on or around the Persian Gulf (other than Iran) already has a security agreement with the US.
The recent statements by PDJT took things a tiny bit further. But there was a longstanding expectation that the US would defend Qatar long beforehand. In practice not much changed.
Wasn’t it the training of foreign pilots which allowed the 9/11 terrorists both the ability and access to be able to commit their coordinated attack? And isn’t that the same Quatar that has been known to offer safe have and fund known terrorist organizations in the recent past? Or am I missing something?
I cannot help but wonder if this might fall into the “pay to play” category after Trump accepted that luxury airliner from the Quatari government. The U.S. was on the verge of inevitable bankruptcy, but with Trump’s financial expertise, we might end up solvent. However, Trump’s obsession with making us the wealthiest nation through international financial investments is allowing to much foreign access and control over assets and innovations inside our borders, IMO. Government and foreign investors should not be prioritized over American owned corporations. No matter how many American’s they employ, it still leaves them in control over us.
They were not training on military bases. They were taking private flight lessons in small civilian aircraft.
Qatar is a country that we have worked with since the Gulf War and we have a joint base in Qatar. They are used as mediators amongst all the other ME countries (such as Hamas, Taliban etc) by providing a place where all parties can meet without fear.
I get that it feels uncomfortable with President Trump’s brand of diplomacy… but if you think about it, it is working WAY better than what was being done before.
Those were civilian flight schools, but they wanted only to learn taking off, not landing.
Never allow any foreign nation to establish any military base here.
“Monroe Doctrine,” anyone?
They are not building a military base here! It has been explained on these pages over and over…
Mike, please read the above posts and replies. There are many nations training in the US and have for years in all types of weapon systems. THERE ARE NO FOREIGN BASES IN THE US. If anyone says there FOREIGN bases tell them to name them.
The German’s had a base outside of El Paso for decades.
That was Biggs Field. Not German, but American. They stored their aircraft there and flew from there as part of desert warfare training. The pilots rotated through there then went home.
Former El Paso resident and I enjoyed interacting with those pilots.
ABC cut him off earlier. I wish the FCC would pull its license.
Funding the military with tariff money as top priority is old and dated. Might as well set the money on fire.. This is an opportunity to cut the bloated-above-all-other-bureaucracies military.
800+ generals, glorified-for-some-unbkown-reason bureaucrats that haven’t won a war in decades, cruising the Pacific in multi-billion dollar carrier battle groups that would go to the bottom of the ocean in the first 10 minutes of any conflict with a serious adversary. And at very low cost to the adversary.
Air power obsolete in the face of adversary’s with more capable drone systems. Useless tank divisions that need 10 hours of maintenance for every hour of operation. Filled with millions of people signing up to get benefit packages at taxpayer expense. “Thank you for your service”
This is not useful to the American public. Can they comb through the cities and remove the internal enemies? No. But that’s where the threat is now. The world has changed, its not WWII. The U.S. military configuration is ridiculous and delusional.
Trump has shown other mechanisms are far more cost-effective in securing the US. But there is a blind obedience to past concepts, venerating what frankly are delusions about what the modern military is and what it can do. Which is not much. It can break physical things, but it turns out that’s not as important as it used to be.
So use this opportunity to cut back a useless, grotesquely ornamental, and obsolete military, not continue to dump money on it.
Just imagine if say $500 billion a year was suddenly freed up and available going forward, and the country was even better secured than it is now without all the nonsense of the US military living in its 1940’s WWII era military-empire fantasy mentality.
Some interesting Articles that discuss the “evolution” of war from early 2023
https://besacenter.org/the-russo-ukraine-war-possible-lessons-for-the-idf/
https://jinsa.org/the-strategic-value-of-israel-air-force/
https://www.inss.org.il/publication/military-2023/
Ultimately, Israel went with the “modern” approach of high tech systems backed by a small highly trained army.
Then were shocked that a low tech system, but high volume people army can cut down the high tech sensors and systems quickly and easy, and then there is no massive standing army fully equipped and ready to deploy and fight the old way.
Nor is the highly trained but small army able to deploy effectively as it relied upon the technological systems to pave the way for it and guide it into battle from a standoff position.
But that high tech system was blind and as useful as tits on a bull.
The only effective actions at that point were for individual units to go in blind and take on whatever they came across.
The Qatar facility will be built within the existing U.S. base and remain under full U.S. jurisdiction, similar to the arrangement with Singapore’s air force, which also operates F-15s at the same Mountain Home Air Force Base location.
Bush & the Clean Break gang was training the infamous MEK terrorists in Nevada. They are currently being housed in Albania, a favorite location.
There is some angst I see in the thread about the Qatar base in Idaho.
I admittedly did not like this at all when I first learned about it.
I read up on it all and learned that training all these foreigners here to use equipment we make and then sell them has been going on for a long time.
I view all this with a great deal of common sense.
So much of what we make here in America requires training to use it all.
I myself taught “Product Knowledge” for the company I worked for back at one time.
People that make everything we’ve got wind up training the techs to fix it, they train the sales reps to sell the stuff.
We make and sell a whole lot of military equipment, the nations buy the stuff and their soldiers need training to use it.
I know I’m over simplifying this, but when you really think about, this isn’t that different from all the other stuff we make, sell, and train people to use.
To say “Don’t allow them to have a base here” is to say stop making military equipment and selling it- and we know that ain’t gonna happen.
You can’t make a fighter jet and then not teach the customer how to use the product.