The Parade of Virgins has been canceled. One is sick and the other refuses to march alone.

Be sure to gather all in one spot for 'your meetings'.

and in my opinion this means Jordan, Turkey and other funders of Al Nusra have to cut them off or see the beheaders knocking on their palace doors.

Seriously, who doesn't see this type of thing coming.

So now al-Qaida, al-Nusra and Isis are all best buds again and totally united in their hatred and desire for revenge due to the airstrikes.

11th dimensional chess my ass.

Airstrikes can bring people together. They can bring peace and love and harmony, to all of our enemies.

Not only with similar views, but identical views and one organizational hierarchy.

It makes rationalizing all sorts of things easier to forget or insist on never having known that the two groups fought. The two have always been allies because now we need for them to always have been allies. Otherwise it's a stupid thing that was done, and we have defined ourselves as never doing stupid things. If we never do stupid things and causing them to become allies is stupid thing, however trivially stupid, then it's not something we did, meaning they have always been allies (or are now still not allies).

From there's it's but a step--albeit a fairly large one--to saying that al-qa'ida and Islam are the same thing. Once you start pretending that boundaries that others set up between themselves don't exist, they all merge into one large, shapeless, gray, and hostile (or pleasing) lump.

Previously, it almost felt like some were trying to paint Al Qaeda and Al Nusra as "moderate" compared to ISIS.

But it's like saying one mafia family is moderately criminal and another is extremely criminal when in reality they are all gangsters.

and 'nice terrorists' in Syria?

that was the plan, not so long ago.

Impossible. ISIL is not Islam, nor are the other non-Islam groups who are killing infidels and non-believers in the name of Allah and Islamic Sharia Law.

al-Nusra Front is the al-Quaeda franchise outlet for Syria
IS is a split from that group that joined up with al-Qaeda in Iraq, to form the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shams
Jordan and the gulf states fund and support al-Nusra
The united States wants the gulf states' help in attacking IS.
The Us claims the existence of another group, "khorasan."
"Khorasan" is actually just the al-Nusra front
This allows us to bomb and work against the al-Nusra front, while still letting our new allies fund and arm it shamelessly.
Al-Nusra has just openly re-aligned with IS.
Who we are purportedly working against

So what this means is that we are funding and arming our allies, allies who are funding and arming the people we are fighting, and we have made allowances for this by leaving a big gap for them to fund and arm these groups, even as we throw bombs and bullets at them. Most of what Jordan and the gulf states are sending that way is a product of US dollars, whether "defense aid" or simple commerce.

Can someone explain to me how this new "war" is not a blatant money laundering scheme for the United States military-industrial complex?

The media seems to be relying on memory "wipe out" of Aluminum Tubes, Yellow Cake from Niger, WMD lied about by Colin Powell to the UN, Abu Graeb Sexual Violation, Torture and Religious Humiliation of Prisoners (many of whom were innocent of anything), Rogue Military Contractors (not answerable to any US Military Code) who raped and murdered innocents, Rendition Flights to other secret torture centers run by the Coalition of the Willing or Coerced. lies, lies and more lies.

Flipping channels to find local weather this a.m. I saw a relaxed, smiling John McCain talking about the need for "Boots on the Ground" to achieve our goal because air strikes aren't enough. Does he (MIC) ever talk about anything else? The interviewer mumbled something about the "American People might not go for that..." but, the conversation immediately went back to more "Boots on the Ground." How we will pay for it wasn't asked.

The Pentagon has to use the 'old' weapons stocks up in order to justify purchasing 'new' weapons stocks. The MIC wants to stay in continuous production, otherwise they have to charge more to resume production.

One glaring case I remember from the '70s was the B1 Bomber. Our University acquired a large stock of Aircraft Grade Aluminum from the original B1 contract after Congress killed it. The Contractor not only got rid of the material, but they destroyed all of the Dies and Molds used to build it, so when the Pentagon got approval to purchase more Aircraft, they had to pay the cost of starting from scratch. The MIC uses these kind of tactics to jawbone the Pentagon and Congress to get their way.

Excellent summary there Scootaloo.

And no, no-one can explain to you how it isn't one big bloody money laundering scheme
without invoking (as mentioned elsewhere in this thread) the 1984 protocol, making
copious & frequent rewrites of history.

Yet still some people wonder why their posts wishing the latest batch of cannon fodder
a "safe journey & successful mission" get mocked for the short attention-span jingoistic
crap that it is.

and Jordan and Turkey, etc. will have to take a stand.

Both will side against IsilNusra in my opinion. They now see that they cannot be controlled.

WIN for our side (or not).