Everyone in the GOP's cranky old man caucus thinks Al Qaeda is in Iran. (They aren't.)

For John McCain and now, Ted Stevens, that whole Al Qaeda/Sunni v. Iran/Shia issue is just too complicated. Cliff Schecter reports that Ted Stevens, like John McCain, doesn't quite get it:

Does it bother anyone else that these people are making foreign policy decisions when they are clearly ignorant? This is from KFQD with conservative talk show host Dan Fagan:

[Senator Ted Stevens]:We expect Al Qaeda to come out some time today with a new manifesto where they ought to be using weapons of mass destruction against the United States. That means that they're realizing they can't win in Iraq. I think they're going to change their way of doing business. And I think we have to be on the alert. These people are all over the world. Al Qaeda's not just in Iraq. They're in Iran. They're in the Philippines. Sen Inouye and I went down to [indistinguishable]. They're over in Indonesia. They're all over.

All over? Not quite. Al Qaeda isn't in Iran except in the diminishing minds of Stevens and McCain.