Qatari state outlet Al Jazeera runs op-ed proclaiming US-Israel ‘war strategy is working’
Is this competence or optics?
President Donald Trump and his administration found an unlikely show of support from Qatari media amid a knockdown-dragout battle to shape the media narrative surrounding Operation Epic Fury.
Al Jazeera, a state media outlet of the Qatari government that is widely viewed as one of the administration’s sharpest critics, published an op-ed on Monday asserting that the “US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working” and explicitly rebuking skeptics.
“Two weeks into Operation Epic Fury, the dominant narrative has settled into a comfortable groove: The United States and Israel stumbled into a war without a plan,” Doha-based academic Muhanad Seloom wrote in the piece published Monday. “But this narrative is wrong.”
A Qatari employee of Al Jazeera Arabic language TV news channel walks past the logo of Al Jazeera in Doha, Qatar. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
Seloom, who works as an assistant professor of international politics and security at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, claimed in his op-ed that Operation Epic Fury has successfully degraded Iranian military capabilities and rendered key nuclear facilities inoperable.
He went on to claim that the U.S. military has broken down Iran’s proxy network into an “uncoordinated, strategically incoherent” confederation that will prove “politically costly for the host states where these groups operate.”
The fact that such a glowing review was published in the pages of a state media outlet tightly controlled by the Qatari government signals that Doha might be making a pivot after calculating the war to be in its favor.
“Seventeen days in, Iran’s supreme leader is dead, his successor is reportedly wounded and every principal instrument of Iranian power projection – missiles, nuclear infrastructure, air defenses, the navy, proxy command networks – has been degraded beyond near-term recovery,” Seloom wrote.
“The campaign’s execution has been imperfect, its public communication poor and its post-conflict planning incomplete. War is never clean. But the strategy — the actual strategy, measured in degraded capabilities rather than cable news cycles — is working.”
The Trump administration quickly jumped on the op-ed, with the president recirculating it via his Truth Social account and the White House “Rapid Response 47” account amplifying it on X. Politico described the article as “going viral in D.C. circles” following its publication.
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Is this competence or optics?
President Donald Trump and his administration found an unlikely show of support from Qatari media amid a knockdown-dragout battle to shape the media narrative surrounding Operation Epic Fury.
Al Jazeera, a state media outlet of the Qatari government that is widely viewed as one of the administration’s sharpest critics, published an op-ed on Monday asserting that the “US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working” and explicitly rebuking skeptics.
“Two weeks into Operation Epic Fury, the dominant narrative has settled into a comfortable groove: The United States and Israel stumbled into a war without a plan,” Doha-based academic Muhanad Seloom wrote in the piece published Monday. “But this narrative is wrong.”
A Qatari employee of Al Jazeera Arabic language TV news channel walks past the logo of Al Jazeera in Doha, Qatar. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
Seloom, who works as an assistant professor of international politics and security at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, claimed in his op-ed that Operation Epic Fury has successfully degraded Iranian military capabilities and rendered key nuclear facilities inoperable.
He went on to claim that the U.S. military has broken down Iran’s proxy network into an “uncoordinated, strategically incoherent” confederation that will prove “politically costly for the host states where these groups operate.”
The fact that such a glowing review was published in the pages of a state media outlet tightly controlled by the Qatari government signals that Doha might be making a pivot after calculating the war to be in its favor.
“Seventeen days in, Iran’s supreme leader is dead, his successor is reportedly wounded and every principal instrument of Iranian power projection – missiles, nuclear infrastructure, air defenses, the navy, proxy command networks – has been degraded beyond near-term recovery,” Seloom wrote.
“The campaign’s execution has been imperfect, its public communication poor and its post-conflict planning incomplete. War is never clean. But the strategy — the actual strategy, measured in degraded capabilities rather than cable news cycles — is working.”
The Trump administration quickly jumped on the op-ed, with the president recirculating it via his Truth Social account and the White House “Rapid Response 47” account amplifying it on X. Politico described the article as “going viral in D.C. circles” following its publication.
Rescue workers search for survivors in the rubble after a strike in southern …
Qatari state outlet Al Jazeera runs op-ed proclaiming US-Israel ‘war strategy is working’
Is this competence or optics?
President Donald Trump and his administration found an unlikely show of support from Qatari media amid a knockdown-dragout battle to shape the media narrative surrounding Operation Epic Fury.
Al Jazeera, a state media outlet of the Qatari government that is widely viewed as one of the administration’s sharpest critics, published an op-ed on Monday asserting that the “US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working” and explicitly rebuking skeptics.
“Two weeks into Operation Epic Fury, the dominant narrative has settled into a comfortable groove: The United States and Israel stumbled into a war without a plan,” Doha-based academic Muhanad Seloom wrote in the piece published Monday. “But this narrative is wrong.”
A Qatari employee of Al Jazeera Arabic language TV news channel walks past the logo of Al Jazeera in Doha, Qatar. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
Seloom, who works as an assistant professor of international politics and security at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, claimed in his op-ed that Operation Epic Fury has successfully degraded Iranian military capabilities and rendered key nuclear facilities inoperable.
He went on to claim that the U.S. military has broken down Iran’s proxy network into an “uncoordinated, strategically incoherent” confederation that will prove “politically costly for the host states where these groups operate.”
The fact that such a glowing review was published in the pages of a state media outlet tightly controlled by the Qatari government signals that Doha might be making a pivot after calculating the war to be in its favor.
“Seventeen days in, Iran’s supreme leader is dead, his successor is reportedly wounded and every principal instrument of Iranian power projection – missiles, nuclear infrastructure, air defenses, the navy, proxy command networks – has been degraded beyond near-term recovery,” Seloom wrote.
“The campaign’s execution has been imperfect, its public communication poor and its post-conflict planning incomplete. War is never clean. But the strategy — the actual strategy, measured in degraded capabilities rather than cable news cycles — is working.”
The Trump administration quickly jumped on the op-ed, with the president recirculating it via his Truth Social account and the White House “Rapid Response 47” account amplifying it on X. Politico described the article as “going viral in D.C. circles” following its publication.
Rescue workers search for survivors in the rubble after a strike in southern …
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