Post hoc ergo procter hoc

Al Qaeda in Iran, Why Tehran is Accommodating the Terrorist Group - Foreign Affairs (via brooklynmutt)

Hold on wait, we do remember this right? (Despite the problematic rhetoric of the article)

Weren’t people speculating the same Iraqi-Al Qaeda relationship prior to the Iraqi invasion? Can you self-proclaimed political analysts pick one already? Al Qaeda couldn’t have been both pro-Saddam and also function safely in Iranian territory. And if you think that is an accurate assumption, I invite you to read some history books. Or even a Wikipedia page, for goodness sake.

The whole Al Qaeda friendly, and holder of destructive weapons propaganda is a little unoriginal, no? 

(via 3achacha3b)

The only country who hates al-Qaeda more than the United States claims to is Iran and that hatred is genuine.

What is this nonsense? Even if they wanted to, al-Qaeda could not set up a base in Iran because they’d be killed.

(via mohandasgandhi)

Indeed. No one (at least in the US) seems to pay attention to the fact that Iran is on al-Qaeda’s list of countries to be destroyed. They believe the Shi’a (of which Iran is a majority) are heretics, perhaps even worse that Christians and Jews.

(via mohandasgandhi)