Is the U.S. Funding Jihad?

Peloni:  A very interesting discussion which raises the question about the motivation behind US funding for Jihadism over the years and whether the motivation for doing so has changed or remains consistent.  Dr. David Wurser joins Prof. Francisco Gil-White to discuss the trend of US support for Jihad over the decades.  Gil-White seems somewhat dismissive of Wurmser’s explanations about the changing parameters which fueled the support of Jihad stemming from the 1970 during the Cold War to the post Cold War period to today.  Wurmser goes on to note that while the motivations US State Department apparatus has changed over the years, it has currently come to a point in which there are currently real advocates whose true interests are explicitly supportive of Jihadism, but that this was previously not the case in previous decades.   So, have the motivations for US funding of Jihadism over the years changed, or is this simply a veil to manage reality, as Gil-White suggests?

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