America has been warned about the Muslim Brotherhood for decades. Yet Washington continues treating its patrons and protectors as indispensable partners.
President Donald Trump departed for the NATO summit in Ankara aboard the luxury aircraft provided by Qatar. He is expected to discuss restoring Turkey’s access to the F-35 program, despite Turkey’s possession of Russia’s S-400 system and the serious concerns of Israel, Greece and Cyprus.
The symbolism is extraordinary: flying on a Qatari plane to discuss providing America’s most advanced fighter aircraft to Turkey.
Qatar has poured billions of dollars into American universities, helping build an academic environment in which anti-Israel agitation has increasingly merged with hostility toward America itself. Turkey, meanwhile, has offered political shelter to Hamas and has become the leading state patron of the Muslim Brotherhood’s regional ideology.
