"It does strike me from time to time how much the sainted G-WOT is a kind of civil war within the global conservative movement. Maybe this is partly why secular parts of the world have had such difficulty getting a purchase on the meaning of the whole thing. There’s a kind of understanding between enemies that they don’t share." – Jamie B&T nails it beautifully.
He doesn’t nail it that beautifully, ’cause it took me ages to figure out what he was even getting at. Then I realised: he’s saying that the US Government and Al Qaeda are two factions of the same movement. So still not the best of summings-up, then.