Subject: Umm, about that Qatari base
In her newsletter, Mary Geddry reacted to Pete Hegseth’s sloppily worded, unintended suggestion that the United States was allowing a Qatari military base in a Western state.

“The incident had achieved the impossible: It made the Pentagon look both imperial and incompetent at the same time,” she wrote. “Still, there’s a certain poetry to it. After all, this administration has spent the past 10 months blurring the line between church and state, truth and fantasy, civilian and combatant, why not blur the line between Idaho and Doha while we’re at it?”