I wasn't referring specifically to the Middle East. I don't know about Canada, but the US has a looooonnnnggggg record of state-sponsored terrorism in a lot of places around the world, including South and Central America, Asia, the Middle East, and various Island nations. The reason the US sponsors terrorism is to protect the activities of powerful corporations that have a vested interest in robbing weaker countries of their resources and keeping their populations in a position of weakness. I would submit that it is this very state-sponsored terrorism that creates the problem of terrorism that is not state-sponsored.