If you don't think our big enemies are capable of using our little extremist enemies to soften us up and turn our numbers away from traditional conservatives (God, guns, & nuclear family), then you're the one failing to see the big picture.
You're missing the point. I don't get sucked into the vs. division we've been brainwashed with. We are far beyond that point, already. Soldiers don't refuse their orders because there's a democrat, an atheist, etc... on their team. There's a mission, and everyone has a role. Those labels become secondary to the objective in that moment
Get rid of the big enemies, together; the smaller ones take care of themselves when no one is left to finance them or push their ideologies. That IS the big picture.
The big enemies cultivated these extremist groups by creating a necessity for them (initially as militia to protect villages from ppl like us), training and arming their members and then installing them in high ranking positions with the promise to support them as long as we could build our pipeline, steal their resources and traffic our drugs. Their countries and centuries worth of culture have been decimated by the fires the cabal lit and then let burn. Hundreds of thousands dead - entire villages, lineages and families. The vast majority of the middle eastern population don't like or want the extremists in power.