Now that the CIA is arming rebels, shouldn't The War on Terror be declared a huge mistake?

[Deny and Shred]

US arms shipments to Al Qaeda, on 9-11 no less. No matter how you feel about recent events, that one fact confirms the inevitable Orwellian absurdity of the Terror fight as a whole.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-begins-weapons-delivery-to-syrian-rebels/2013/09/11/9fcf2ed8-1b0c-11e3-a628-7e6dde8f889d_story.html

[jakeXT]

1. You still need it for the domestic police state. /nt

[Deny and Shred]

3. That is a War on Something Else

I'm just not sure the right word for it. It is Orwellian, though, mores the pity.

[ehcross]

7. US War on terror

It certainly was a war on terror. But I still don't know whose terror it was.

[Scuba]

2. It should have been declared a mistake the first time someone said "war on terror".

[xfundy]

5. Raygun's CIA, Bush The Smarter's CIA armed AQ

In fact, I was told in school that the CIA began promoting a change to the concept of "jihad," spreading propaganda that, rather than an "internal struggle," it should become outward violence against the Russians.