It's a question of perspective. The elites think that they're using the jihadis and vice versa...so there's only one thing to do--FOLLOW THE MONEY.

Meanwhile, you may enjoy Dr. Dennis Cuddy's work. Here are a few snippets:

Although several Arab nations have listed the MB [Muslim Brotherhood] as a terrorist organization, the U.S. never has because it has actually supported them for decades, and the PE [Power Elite] uses them to further its one-world goals (one-world economy, government and religion). Just as the PE has used the Communist dynamic to incentivize the Capitalist West to accept a world government, and the radical Islamic threat to incentivize Israel to do likewise, the same principle has been used with the Sunni MB. 

The U.S., implementing the PE’s plan, used the Sunni Saddam Hussein until he reached a certain level of power and aggressivity. He was then ousted and replaced in Iraq by the current Shiite majority which has allied with the Shiite Iran. However, to counter the growing strength of Iran, revolutions were promulgated in Egypt, Libya, etc., which the Sunni MB will dominate. The PE’s world government goal requires that neither the Sunnis nor Shiites become too strong, but rather become struggle-weary like the Iraqis and live together emphasizing what each has in common as Muslims, much like what Catholics and Protestants have done around the world. Then the PE will syncretize the world’s faiths into a common world religion, just as it synthesizes Western Capitalism and Eastern Communism into a World Socialist Government.

PE agent Zbigniew Brzezinski (ZB) was national security for Pres. Jimmy Carter and supported formerly-exiled Ayatollah Khomeini’s revolution in Iran. ZB now is an advisor to Pres. Barack Obama and sees Turkey (Sunni majority) as the model for Islamic revolutionaries in the Middle East and North Africa.

Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi and Afghan president Hamid Karzai are puppets of the PE, just like American presidents have been for decades.

And so that the PE can "pull the strings" of its puppets, presidents have monitors. Just like Col. Edward M. House monitored the activities of President Woodrow Wilson, do you really believe Hillary Clinton just happened to meet Bill Clinton in the library at Yale University? Also,do you really believe Huma Abedin just happens to be Secretary of State Clinton's deputy chief-of-staff? Abedin has 3 family members associated with organizations having ties to the MB. 

Likewise, do you really believe Valerie Jarrett just happens to be perhaps the closest adviser to President Obama? Jarrett was born in Iran in 1956 to a father who was in Iran from 1950 to 1961, which (perhaps coincidentally) includes the time the CIA was overthrowing Iranian leader Mohammad Mossadegh (1953). Do you also believe PE agent Zbigniew Brzezinski just happens to be an adviser to President Obama? And Brzezinski, after advising President Jimmy Carter to support the Ayatollah Khomeini following the Shah's abdication in 1979, recently has been strongly advising President Obama NOT to take military action against Iran to prevent it from developing a nuclear weapon, even though Israel has informed him they believe their existence may depend upon such action.

I don't mention this out of a desire to see the ravages of war occur, but simply to show the extent of the PE's control. For the moment, at least, the PE simply doesn't want a major military conflict involving Iran. Iran is very important to the PE's secret plan, as in the 1930s the Shah of Iran admired Hitler so much that he changed his country's name in 1935 from Persia to Iran, which in Farsi means Aryan (in line with Hitler's concept of a superior Aryan race of people).

Although Mitt Romney is a puppet of the PE (if elected president. he will not cancel NAFTA, GATT, or Permanent Norman Trade Relations with Communist China), their preferred candidate for 2012 is puppet President Obama because of his Muslim background and movement of the U.S. toward socialism (e.g., taking over Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, General Motors, etc.). For the PE, Mitt Romney is their Wendell Willkie of 2012 (Willkie was chosen by the PE to lose to President Roosevelt in 1940).

Therefore, it is important to note what Romney could have used against President Obama, but hasn't. For example, Romney should be pounding the national airwaves with ads saying the Obama administration (especially Secretary of State Hillary Clinton) did not provide enough security for the U.S. ambassador and other Americans in Libya, but he hasn't. Instead, President Obama is made to look like a macho commander-in-chief, sending the Marines to the region and demanding the Libyan perpetrators be brought to justice. Actually, U.S. Rep. King mentioned above is chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee and, on CNN September 28, said that U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice's explanation of the Benghazi attack was "such a failure of foreign policy message and leadership" and "such a misstatement of facts" that "I believe she should resign." Susan Rice is a Rhodes scholar.

It was then the beginning of the 21st century, which Aldous Huxley in BRAVE NEW WORLD REVISITED (1958) said would be "the era of World Controllers." Confirming this was PE member David Rockefeller's startling admission in his MEMOIRS (2002) that he was part of a "secret cabal" which was "conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated political and economic structure—one world, if you will." That the cabal is "secret" means its members are not all known. At the beginning of the Prologue in Nicholas Hagger's THE SYNDICATE: THE STORY OF THE COMING WORLD GOVERNMENT (2004), he reveals that the Queen of England is alleged to have told her butler Paul Burrell a few months after Princess Diana's death in a car crash (August 31, 1997): "Be careful. There are powers at work in this country about which we have no knowledge."

In following the PE's strategy of using a dialectical process via regionalization to achieve a World Socialist Government, Barack Obama was elected president in 2008. With his Muslim background, he would be able to relate to the Muslim revolutionary uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East beginning in 2011. He made presidential overtures to the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) from the beginning of his administration. And as the MB was the leading organizational structure in these revolutions, they would be in a unique cross-country position to facilitate the regionalization of the nations involved.

Obama as president could also move the U.S. increasingly toward socialism, which would be necessary for an eventual "comfortable merger" with other socialist regions such as Europe and Latin America. Therefore, he may be re-elected (with an "October Surprise") in November 2012. He could be followed as president By Jeb Bush 2016 in time to accept the "Phoenix" as the new world currency planned for 2018. And if Jeb Bush is re-elected in 2020, the new president would begin term of office in 2025, the year by which Luciferian occultist Alice Bailey proclaimed the "World Federation of Nations" would be "taking rapid shape," according to "the Plan."

Cuddy's quite a prolific writer and presents a veritable feast for thought:

http://www.newswithviews.com/Cuddy/dennisA.htm

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