So it’s been pretty busy for me the last little while which is why I haven’t been able to post much but this popped up a little while ago and I wanted to say lol nuance is important!!!  Anyway at the end of May, the US government tried to link Iran with Al Qaeda but there’s one problem, Iran is Shia while Al Qaeda is Sunni and the radicals in each group hate each other more than they hate the West.

The Trump administration is telling Congress about what it says are alarming ties between Iran and Al Qaeda, prompting skeptical reactions and concern on Capitol Hill.

Briefings by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, backed up by other State Department and Pentagon officials, have led Democrats and some Republicans to ask whether the administration is building a case that the White House could use to invoke the war authorization passed by Congress in 2001 to battle terror groups as legal cover for military action against Iran.

Source: New York Times

The divide between the two sects are quite large and any student of history would see that claim as ridiculous.

With that said, I have to give Trump credit I guess because he pushed back against striking Iran.

President Trump reportedly told a confidant that his national security advisers want to push him into a war with Iran.

“These people want to push us into a war, and it’s so disgusting,” Mr. Trump told one person about his advisers, according to The Wall Street Journal.

“We don’t need any more wars,” he reportedly added.

Source: The Hill

He knowingly surrounded himself with war mongers and ripped up the Iran deal because Obama did it but this was a bit of good news at least.