"The examples you did give were all nationally focused, not international."

People organising terror in foreign countries, even on the other side of the world, and for some reason that doesn't count as "international". I don't understand that logic. Does it only apply to Americans?

I wasn't the suggesting the Americans are the only onmes in the frame of course. "One of the main agents" implies as much. Quite true - the Russians went in for it as well. And other countries as well. And that is still true today.

My point wasn't that the Americans are uniquely to be blamed, but that terrorism is not limited to the people identified as the enemy. State terror, and state sponsored terror, are forms of terrorism, and historically they have been far more destructive of life than other forms, even when you take September 11th 2001 into account.