This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor.

I welcome Cliff May, founder and president of the Foundation for Defensive Democracy, writing his column at the Washington Times.

Qatar, capital Doha, what is to be done?

The airplane is the centerpiece of many reports that I see these last days,

a vast 747 gifted to, we're told some aspect of the United States government.

I believe the military is the latest explanation.

But there's much more to Qatar to discover,

and there's mystery to its conduct,

especially since the attack on Israel in 2023.

Cliff, a very good evening to you.

You visited Qatar, and you observe in your column its conduct these last years.

Does it make sense that they would be hosting unacceptable characters attached to mass murder?

At the same time, they're giving gifts to the United States government.

Good evening to you. Good evening to you.

Good evening to you. Well, in a certain way it does. It's called hedging your bets.

I think it's worse than that. But I think there are a lot of analysts who would say, sure,

there are those who would say just want they want to be mediators. They want to have good

relations with everybody, be able to talk to everybody, be able to set up lines of communications between the Islamic Republic of Iran.

They have, they had a Taliban office.

I kind of remember going to see, at least from the outside the Taliban office.

They've been hosting Hamas leaders, Hamas leaders who become fabulously wealthy, living,

as I understand in either five-star hotels or villas and then they're

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