This same crowd has been actively recruiting for years to get members of our intelligence and law enforcement community to betray the country and leak classified secrets to the NY Times. Why would this be a surprise? The only reason they don't literally do campaign commercials with Zawahiri is they know it would cost them more elections. Its not that they are morally opposed to what he wants - the destruction of America and its military - but they just prefer different tactics.
"Its not that they are morally opposed to what he wants - the destruction of America and its military - but they just prefer different tactics."
Au Contraire! I think the leaders and funders are Marxists who would like to destroy the US, to further their "International Marxist" (One World) ideas. Their followers, maybe for the most part, might be just the same old garden-variety Useful Idjits.