Since when is al Nusra the same as al Qaeda?

The USA needs a new AUMF rather than military propaganda. Al Qaeda has become a buzz word and not fact. The words al Qaeda is being used to justify military action. Most of what is occuring with the US military is illegal.

Daesh is not al Qaeda either. They are the Ba'thists. There is only pretense they are al Qaeda because of al Qaeda in Iraq. Once they grew their own network they no longer were affiliated with al Qaeda in any way. 

The relationship between Saudi Arabia and Turkey represents the reality these countries live with all the time. The USA chronically attempts to create a designer reality that never reflects reality. In the USA it is what sells politically and not the truth.  

This is the exact reason why the USA doesn't belong in the Middle East. The USA always believes it can recreate the USA anywhere it goes. That is delusional. It didn't work in Iraq and it isn't going to work in Syria. Turkey and Saudi Arabia are allies and they need support in the way they ASK, not carrying the burden of Western military priorities. 

The USA military has no idea what 'the ground' even looks like or respect local authority that has sustained for centuries if not millennia. The USA recognizes it's own propaganda as a "Terror List" which destroys every organized fighting group in the region. The USA needs to leave the Middle East to those that understand it. 

The USA is tolerated in the Middle East because it has a lot of bombs and soldiers and transportation that facilitates it's presence anywhere in the world within in short periods of time. The USA needs to put it's military wallet away and mind it's own business.


May 12, 2015
By Kim Sengupta

Turkey and Saudi Arabia (click here) are actively supporting a hardline coalition of Islamist rebels against Bashar al-Assad’s regime that includes al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria, in a move that has alarmed Western governments.

The two countries are focusing their backing for the Syrian rebels on the combined Jaish al-Fatah, or the Army of Conquest, a command structure for jihadist groups in Syria that includes Jabhat al-Nusra, an extremist rival to Isis which shares many of its aspirations for a fundamentalist caliphate.

The decision by the two leading allies of the West to back a group in which al-Nusra plays a leading role has alarmed Western governments and is at odds with the US, which is firmly opposed to arming and funding jihadist extremists in Syria’s long-running civil war....