the difference can only be seen when some one want's to.
when the soviet union inveded Afghanistan the USA did it's best to support afghani trrorists"as allies" ,after SU got out of afghanistan,the usa saw in the same (allies) real threat to it's national security,so they invaded afghanistan to salvage the world of
(trrorism).
p.s: osama bin laden's family own's almost half of usa oil companies till now!!!.