In particular, this part seems to explain at least on a surface level why US media is working so hard to stress the term "moderate" and promise me that there is *no longer* an Al-Qaeda influence (which again, is suspicious, because that very same media was pretty adamant that there never was an Al-Qaeda influence in the Syrian Civil War for a very long time while the US was directly funding rebranded Al-Qaeda brigades. Past tense; not saying that's happening now.)