[footoverhand]

An easy way to determine if the US supports a group is to look at the language used to describe that group. Are they "freedom fighters" or "terrorists"?

France is fighting "terrorists" in Mali, not "freedom fighters". The US supports the Syrian "rebels", not the Syrian "terrorists".

[darkarmani]

> An easy way to determine if the US supports a group is to look at the language used to describe that group

You mean like "ally" or "enemy?"

[grimtrigger]

Who exactly is the US? The government? Democrats? Republicans? Journalists?

[jbooth]

All of those things. When they all agree on a terminology, the terminology can be said to be used by 'the US'.

[grimtrigger]

They don't all agree.