The United States is steadily deploying more forces into the Middle East for a potential military strike on the Islamic Republic of Iran. Yet it increasingly appears that the Trump administration has made a strategic choice: to dismantle the Shiite jihadi axis led by Iran while simultaneously backing Sunni jihadi regimes and movements across the region – Syria, Turkey and Qatar – and while we can be grateful for the prospect of ending Iran’s brutal Islamic regime, empowering Sunni jihadism is a dangerous gamble with long-term consequences.