They are allies in the same cause. Same club, different beard.

Craig Whiteside of the U.S. Naval War College dubbed, “the Great Prison Release of 2009.” 5,700 detainees were released from Bucca that year and Whiteside writes that, “An unknown number of these men were destined to return to ISI [Islamic State of Iraq], to execute operations as part of cells assembled during their time in Bucca.” Whiteside, himself a former US army infantry officer and Iraq war veteran, was puzzled by the release plan.


Whiteside notes further that, “The United States is often unjustly blamed for many things that are wrong in this world, but the revitalization of ISIL [ISIS] and its incubation in our own Camp Bucca is something that Americans truly own…The Iraqi government has many enemies, and the United States helped put many of them out on the street in 2009. Why?”
The danger of such a policy was immediately apparent to Iraqi officials and was quickly reported by then Washington Post

local police chief about the nature of the released detainees, who replied, “These men weren’t planting flowers in a garden. They weren’t strolling down the street,” when they were detained. The police chief admitted to being overwhelmed by the return of hundreds of former Bucca inmates to the area while estimating that 90% would return to the fight. The deputy police chief in Garma noted that the one-time driver of al-Zarqawi was among those who had been released and had already carried out a car bomb attack that had killed 15. An Iraqi ministry of interior official further told Shadid that “Al-Qaeda is preparing itself for the departure of the Americans. And they want to stage a revolution.”

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/salafis-throwing-bombs-how-american-and-british-planners-partnered-with-al-qaeda-affiliated-groups-at-the-start-of-the-syrian-civil-war/


America itself has destroyed and looted artifacts. Fishing in the troubled waters ,Zionist made fortunes form Iraqi artifacts . USA allowed ISIS to be born in Camp Bucca and and then sent them to Syria and parts of Iraq .

Taliban was pissed off when it made many suggestions at UN and to western countries including opium cultivation, terrorism , and protection of historic sites in exchange for aid ,recognition and diplomacy but ignored . I think it was Japan who insisted on proving money as aid but only for the protection of the statue. that provoked Taliban to demolish the statue .