Did you ever think that if your supporting 'splinter*' groups of Al Queda then your supporting Al Queda, or is that too simple for you, and do check what Al Queda actually is.
But, at least we both agree that the US is arming and supporting 'parts' of Al Queda.
But read your 'official' view, this is what your media tell you. The Council for Foreign Relations controls most US policy for both parties, if you don't know who they are then try google !
Al-Qaeda, an international terrorist network, is considered the top terrorist threat to the United States. The group is wanted for its September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center# and the Pentagon#, as well as a host of lesser attacks. To escape the post-9/11 U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, al-Qaeda's central leadership fled eastward into Pakistan, securing a safe haven in loosely governed areas there. In July 2007, U.S. intelligence agencies found that the organization was regrouping and regaining strength in these tribal areas along the border with Afghanistan, though targeted killings of senior al-Qaeda leaders have since diminished the group's command and control capabilities. In February 2009, Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair told lawmakers that the group's core "is less capable and effective than it was a year ago." The killing of al-Qaeda's top leader Osama bin Laden by U.S. forces in Pakistan in May 2011 served a significant blow to the organization, but analysts say al-Qaeda remains deadly with its networks spread all over the world. Plus, a number of affiliated groups have gained prominence in recent years, complicating the task of containing the organization.
http://www.cfr.org/terrorist-o ... k-al-qaida-al-qaida/p9126
# Not by your FBI anyway !
But, isn't Al Queda the whole reason for the TSA, Patriot Act, Indefinet detention of US citizens, the loss of your constitution, Your 'Never Ending' war on Terror
tm, your murder of civilians in all corners of the globe with drone strikes ?
But, even you admit your arming and supporting 'parts' of them.
Are they the 'good' parts, or what ?
This is why many parts of the world, who actually know and understand this simple fact can see no difference in your 'two' parties.
Both support terrorists and want to murder and loot, use their proxy terror groups to carry out their bidding, and all in the name of the US, and that includes you, sorry !
* Marc Sageman, a psychiatrist and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, said that al-Qaeda is now just a "loose label for a movement that seems to target the West". "There is no umbrella organisation. We like to create a mythical entity called [al-Qaeda] in our minds, but that is not the reality we are dealing with."[36]
What exactly al-Qaeda is, or was, remains in dispute. Author and journalist Adam Curtis argues that the idea of al-Qaeda as a formal organization is primarily an American invention. Curtis contends the name "al-Qaeda" was first brought to the attention of the public in the 2001 trial of bin Laden and the four men accused of the 1998 US embassy bombings in East Africa:
The reality was that bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri had become the focus of a loose association of disillusioned Islamist militants who were attracted by the new strategy. But there was no organization. These were militants who mostly planned their own operations and looked to bin Laden^ for funding and assistance. He was not their commander. There is also no evidence that bin Laden used the term "al-Qaeda" to refer to the name of a group until after September 11 attacks, when he realized that this was the term the Americans had given it.[49]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda
^ Who historically had a long standing association with the US, particually the CIA, and, check out the Bin Laden's and Bush families business associations.
And daddy Bush was involved with the CIA, deeply.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C ... 0%93_al-Qaeda_controversy
An article in Der Spiegel, in 2007, entitled "Arming the Middle East", Siegesmund von Ilsemann called Bin Laden "one of the CIA's best weapons customers." [4]
According to author Steve Coll,
Overall, the U.S. government looked favorably on the Arab recruitment drives. ... Some of the most ardent cold warriors at Langley [The CIA headquarters] thought this program should be formally endorsed and extended. ... [T]he CIA "examined ways to increase their participation, perhaps in the form of some sort of international brigade" ... Robert Gates [then-head of the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence] recalled. ... At the [CIA's] Islamabad station [station chief] Milt Bearden felt that bin Laden himself "actually did some very good things" by putting money into Afghanistan.[5]
Robin Cook, Foreign Secretary in the UK from 1997–2001, and Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council from 2001–2003, believed the CIA had provided arms to the Arab Mujahideen, including Osama bin Laden, writing, "Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan."[6]
Red pill or Blue pill........
