Even with 13 U.S. service members killed and countless Americans abandoned to the tender mercies of the Taliban regime, most people assumed that the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan was the result of the Biden administration’s gross incompetence rather than duplicity.

What, then, is one to make of the Biden Pentagon’s latest proposal to sell $500 million worth of armed drones to the Qatari regime known for its cyberattacks against American organizations, its close ties to such terrorist organizations as Hamas and the Taliban, and its notorious laxity in controlling residents’ financial sponsorship of terrorism.