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Our President admits to signing off on attack of U.S. Air base in Qatar.

In my opinion, the most under-reported story from last week is that the U.S. Commander in Chief, by his own admission, signed off on an Iranian missile strike at the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.

Here’s an excerpt from a story published on Military.com and the right-leaning Washington Times:

“On Wednesday, as he was about to depart from a NATO summit, President Donald Trump seemed to make a stunning admission: He gave Iran the green light to attack a U.S. military base in retaliation for his own strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites.

The Iranians "were very nice. They gave us warning," Trump told reporters. "They said, 'We're going to shoot 'em. Is one o'clock OK?' I said, 'It's fine,'" he added.

I haven't heard a word about this from the Bengazi/Afghanistan pullout crowd that screamed so loudly not too long ago. For years, Republican groups and politicians have pretended to put country first, and to care about our troops. They've jumped on the bandwagon any time there's a failure or security breakdown that threatens our service men and women during a Democratic administration.”

Here, no group is worse about this than the Kansas Republican Party, whose social media today seems to be focused on trolling opponents and ginning up the emotions of their political base. Its feed has the emotional and intellectual depth of an over-tired toddler. I’ll never stop laughing at how the same folks that proudly display “F@#k Your Feelings” stickers and wave their F@#k Joe Biden flags for all to see, sure do seem to get their feelings hurt by just about everything imaginable.

But while they’re inventing things to be upset about, they’re actively ignoring something that seems actually worth being upset about - regardless of political affiliation.

An American president publicly stated that he was OK with a foreign adversary striking a U.S. military installation with U.S. Service men and women on site, potentially being placed in harm’s way. That the military of an adversarial nation called up the Commander in Chief of the U.S. forces, said they planned to attack, and the President of the United States basically was like “OK, that’s cool, we’ll just pencil it in at 1 p.m. That’s fine.”

That’s a far cry from the obnoxious and tough-acting “Bomb Iran” video the administration posted on its social media feed recently.

And it feels to me like it brushes against language in the U.S. Constitution on treason.

Article III, Section 3, Clause 1:

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort….

I get that we live in a period of time where much of politics is viewed as a sport. Where so long as my team is winning, we can justify any sort of behavior in the name of advancing our own individual causes.

But it feels like some things should supersede our allegiance to political parties and positions.

Having a president who doesn’t confer with our enemies about attack plans, put our troops in harm’s way, and then proudly crow about it is probably as good a place as any to start.