Something you didn't allude to was the fact that today the US continues to fund, arm, and train al Qaeda and similar terrorist organizations. It's an old mechanism to control a population: simply create an 'opposition' that you completely control, that commits atrocities, and the population that depends on your protection will grant any power you desire.
That's how Hamas, al Qaeda and many, many more organizations are used today by modern governments. Crack dealers, for example. Like crack? Thank the CIA, that taught drug dealers how to make it, supplied them with coke, and protected them from prosecution by the DEA and local LEO using 'state security' as a mechanism.
60 Minutes, an American television show, published a segment in which the DEA showed the CIA importing tons of cocaine into America, after one of their agents, Enrique Camarena, was tortured to death by CIA and drug gangs.
Add Crips and Bloods to the list of government funded operations preying on civilians to increase the power of despots to prey on them via taxation.