Tillerson is defending Qatar/Muslim Brotherhood against the wishes

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https://www.conservativereview.com/articles/rogue-rex-state-dept-demands-allies-back-off-terror-linked-qatar

>Secretary Tillerson, a former oil executive, has long been extremely close with the regime in Doha. Over the past few years, Tillerson has met personally with Qatar’s leader several times. Less than a week after election day, Tillerson arrived in Doha to discuss ExxonMobil and Qatar. He and Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani met again in September 2016 on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. They again got together during Tillerson’s February 2016 trip to Doha. They once more met in private in Houston in February 2015. And those are only the meetings between the two that were disclosed to the public.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/25/world/americas/rex-tillerson-american-diplomacy.html

>His rough beginning has led to a quiet effort by senior Republican officials from past administrations — including Henry A. Kissinger, Ms. Rice and Robert M. Gates, a former defense secretary — to reach out with advice. He has been told to lean more on the experience of career professionals, to become more confident in taking initiatives separate from a White House preoccupied by investigations and, above all, to move more quickly.

>The rift widened when Mr. Kushner and Stephen K. Bannon, Mr. Trump’s chief strategist, argued for backing Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other countries that had imposed an embargo on Qatar, ostensibly to punish it for financing the Muslim Brotherhood and other extremist groups. Mr. Tillerson, who had relationships in Qatar dating from his time as the chief executive of Exxon Mobil, argued for the United States to take a neutral position in the dispute in order to keep the Gulf Cooperation Council, a loose association of mostly Sunni Arab nations, together.