Think about it.
There is crank literature out there that alleges international bankers (joooos?) financed both sides in the U.S.' War between the States; and WWI. Maybe at some level encouraged the conflict. The idea is that whichever side wins gets the spoils and can pay the war debts for both, with interest.
Then I read what you wrote: "We're funding the guys who want to murder us." Where do our funds come from? Our central bank perhaps?
How is that different from what the crank literature alleges? Cui bono? Who benefits from conflict between the islamic world and the West? The military industrial complex perhaps?
I'm not charging anything nor promoting any conspiracy theories. I'm just asking, why are we funding those who want to kill us? Is there a better answer than the conspiracy theory? If you have one, let's hear it. This is strictly devil's advocate, so spare me the flames.
why are we funding those who want to kill us?
Simple survival I imagine.
Because those who want to kill us control a finite resource which many of us do not want to do without.
Try "Because we don't have much choice in the matter -- the liberal enviros having blocked off access to our own sources of oil and efficient alternative energy sources (coal), while demanding a complex diet of boutique fuels that tax our limited refining and distribution capacity."