Oleksii Liskonih/iStock/Getty Images PlusPresident Donald Trump has issued an executive order that for the first time extends a NATO-style security guarantee to an Arab state. The order, signed on Monday, proclaims,[I]t is the policy of the United States to guarantee the security and territorial integrity of the State of Qatar against external attack. The apology and Trump’s security guarantee to Qatar came the same day. Ties that are denounced in others are tolerated in this case, even as the United States extends its strongest-ever security guarantee to Qatar. He insisted the jet was “being given to the United States Air Force/Department of Defense, NOT TO ME!” and calling it a taxpayer-saving measure.