“An Islamo-Narco technology exchange would be a worrying
thing”

Let’s look at that for a moment.

Narco-terrorists, what are they trying to achieve? Well they certainly had Marxist roots but it is clear that they need money too, they may well covet money because it can buy things that an ideology can’t offer. The US is a major market for the Narco’s. Who’d want to stir the hive of the US armed forces any more than they already have? I think the FARC are pretty happy with the way things are right now; a vast nether region of Columbia, Equator, and Brazil to practice their brand of separatism and a thriving market in the US for their goods. They need a buffer from their enemies and the tools to maintain it. But they should crave popular support locally more than they need help from abroad to attack the US. And I don’t think the FARC has too much to offer the Islamists. Jungle warfare doesn’t have too much in common with desert warfare and I don’t think Hezbollah has too much to learn from the FARC about IED’s. Purportedly, two IRA operatives were caught trying to train FARC in the use of improvised explosives. It is clear that FARC uses those kinds of attacks to threaten the Columbian government. I have a hard time seeing their aspirations going much further than that.

The Islamo-terrorists on the other hand have a stated desire to attack the US. Every tit-for-tat raises oil prices. The Islamists have the global reach, have financial networks, and have government sponsors. Maybe the grand strategy is to create a network of threats to the US like Iran has successfully arrayed against Israel in the form of a networked terrorist organizations such as Hamas, Hezbollah and others.