Chomsly aptly put it: "The best way to reduce terrorism is not to participate in it".

What did Washington do after the mightiest military machine in the Middle East, from the land, sea and air, slaughtered like shooting fish in a barrel 2000 trapped Palestinians including 500 children in Gaza?

Restocked it ammunition.

Osama Bin Laden recalled it was the 1982 "made-in-USA" Israeli blitzkrieg of Lebanon (17,000 mostly Muslim civilians killed) that was the catalyst that set him on the road to armed jihad. And it was the 2003 destruction of Iraq (and Libya and Syria) that enabled ISIS to spread.

In our inter-connected global village, what we do "over there" eventually reaches our shores.