"Terrorists" on our side?

Kurds train for battle with Iran

Deep in the mountains of eastern Iraq , a cluster of mud huts and the chatter of machine gun fire reveal another piece of the jigsaw puzzle called Kurdistan.
Here, recruits are training to fight Iran , one of the four countries that rule the fractured Kurdish people. And although they belong to an organization officially outlawed as terrorist by Washington, they appear to be operating unhindered either by Iraqi-Kurdish units or the limited U.S. force in Kurdish areas.
A boulder-studded road spirals up through sun-soaked mountains to a pale yellow building that flies the flag of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), condemned as a terrorist organization by the U.S. and its NATO ally, Turkey.
In the Nov. 27 issue of The New Yorker, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh wrote that PEJAK was receiving support from the U.S. as well as from Israel , which fears Iran‘s nuclear ambitions and Ahmadinejad‘s call to wipe the Jewish state off the map.

Supporting a group that in words we condemn? Supporting a group that Turkey, an ally on paper, threatens to attack? Reminds me a little of our support of Saddam during the Iran-Iraq war.
Our foreign policy makes the U.S. a very fickle boy/girl-friend.