So long the rogues and terrorists serve American interests it is just fine!!! It is just fine if the terrorists kill outside American soil!!!

The trouble begins when these very rogues and terrorists turn against their very handlers in America.

It was the same story with Saddam Hussein, Taliban and Al-Quaida. Now it is Pakistan's ISI. They were the pillars of strength for the USA, oblique CIA, during the Cold War.

Few realize that cohabiting with criminals always boomerangs. Ultimately, they devour their funders/handlers. Prey where the billions of American tax payers dollars going when they went unaccounted to Pakistan?

Instead of taking the path of diplomacy the US administration opted for the easier, but deadlier/dangerous, path of using/funding criminals and outlaws to meet its geopolitical/business ambitions.

The criminals were funded with American taxpayers money, and the media and a majority of people kept silent.

As to your point about a good and bad source, the entire media was fed by the Bush administration/Rumsfeld during most of his presidency. And it was considered a “good” source.

The embedded journalists in Iraq and Afghanistan had made us believe that the “war on terror' had been won. Leading think-tanks in America and elsewhere made us believe that US and CIA would rid the world of the “evil of axis”.

At that time no one questioned which source was to be trusted?

Now we have reached a time when instead of talking about the “credibility of sources” we begin talking about the real/serious issues that imperil world peace as a consequences of the crazy policies during the past decade.

The hair-splitting will not help. The CIA has operated for decades through state-actors in different countries, and who ,in turn, operate through criminals (branded conveniently as terrorists).

Some people within the State-actors have developed a vested interest in the continuation of the so-called terrorism because a lot of taxpayers money can be diverted to lineup their pockets.