Well it's still not a simple issue, take a look at Syria for example, they are in a Civil War and here are who is fighting


THE GOVERNMENT Bashir al-Assad, Iran, Hezbollah, Ba'ath Brigades, al-Abbas, Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq, Jayash al-Muwahhideen, Syrian Resistence, Arab Nationalist Guard, Popular Front For The Liberation of Palestine. With arms provided by: Russia, North Korea(possibly China)

THE OPPOSITION(yeah, that's how fucking organized they are ) : Islamic Front, Free Syrian Army, Al-Nusra Front, Syrian Revolutionary Command Council, Jabhat Ansar al-Deen, Muhajirin wa-Ansar Alliance. With arms provided by: USA, France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Libya

THE ISLAMIC STATE: ISIS/ISIL, Al Qaeda

THE KURDS & INTELLECTUALS: Kurdistan, People's Protection Units, Liwa' Jabhat al-'Akrad, Peshmerga, and the Kurdistan Workers Party. Arms provided by: USA, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, Bahrain, The UAE, and Morocco .


So things are certainly NOT as binary as wars have been in the past.


Also in regards to Ted and Tim, Tim McVeigh WAS big into religion and anti abortion and all that stuff and he DID convert to Roman Catholicism but the main crux of his beef with the United States government was what the FBI and ATF did at Waco as well as Ruby Ridge. Ted Kaczynski was somewhat of a Luddite to an extent. Not in that he was religious, but he just hated technology and went waaaaaay off the deep end with the whole save the Earth kind of thing.