New Air Force One

[Clark Griswold]

Leave the Qatari jet as is plus security upgrades, give to First Lady for her official transportation
He’ll win husband of the century and go up 15 points with soccer moms


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[StoleIt]

Oh yea, they already built the new VC-25B hangars at Andrews...they only built 2.

[Clark Griswold]

Oh yea, they already built the new VC-25B hangars at Andrews...they only built 2.

His and hers


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[Clayton Bigsby]

I’m reading the FreeC-25 is on its way.

i say gut it, give it to Sierra Nevada for the E-4 program.  

[disgruntledemployee]

So, what did a "Free 747" buy Qatar?  Seems like basing at Mt Home.

[Lord Ratner]

10 hours ago, disgruntledemployee said:

So, what did a "Free 747" buy Qatar?  Seems like basing at Mt Home.

At least now we know what the bargain was to get the qataris to abandon Hamas and force the ceasefire. 

 

This might be another bit of 4d chess on behalf of the Trump administration. Giving the qataris a no shit facility in the United States is going to tie them to us in a much more concrete way than simply having a base in their country. My suspicion is that the Trump administration has decided that we are going to buy the qataris away from the Chinese and the Iranians. And we're going to lock them in with a deeply integrated military, similar to how we have locked in the Saudis. 

 

Obviously the 4D chess bit is tongue in cheek, but it's just another example of the Trump administration making a decision and buying into it 100%. In an era where the dreams of a cosmopolitan worldwide alliance have fallen apart, if the Republicans commit themselves to the concept of a Balkanized world again, we can start making moves to make sure that our sphere of influence is the more powerful one. 

 

The real problem of course will be the the pseudo-utopians on the far right and the far left that have turned into New age isolationists. They'll bitch and moan about the duplicitous nature of the Qatari regime as though that's not an inescapable facet of international relations.

 

It's got to be a rough time to be a libertarian.