The problem with the US Government is that they try so hard to garner support from everybody, which leads to situations where the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. With all the wheeling and dealing going on, allies turn to opponents where convenient (and vice versa).

Today we're helping a certain group of people, tomorrow we're bombing the shit out of them. Why?

> it would be difficult for the Congress to get involved in trying to track the designation of which are the affiliate forces

Translation: when their usefulness ends then we stop supporting them, at which point they turn against us. This happens so frequently that monthly briefings would be a pointless formality.

In their effort to control everybody, more spitefully slip through their fingers.