"This is terrorism on a state scale."

Ah! Now there is the real truth which is never spoken in the western media. The so-called "War on Terror" IS itself terrorism on a state scale and on a really enormous scale, terrorism as practiced by western governments and their armed forces and covert agencies against various Muslim nations, and that is exactly the way most Muslims see it. They also see Israel's aggressive activities beyond its own borders in that same light.

They see themselves as the people who are victimized by terrorism, who are fighting against terrorism, and I think they are quite correct in seeing it that way. There will never be any lack of willing recruits to fight the American and Israeli forces in the various occupied lands, because that is how people react to state-sponsored terrorism. They take up arms against it.

Terrorism does, of course, provoke counter-terrorism. That's inevitable. If you look at the body count in this war, however, the terrorism practiced by western governments and armies is so much greater in its violence and destruction than the terrorism practiced by scattered groups of jihadists such as Al Qaeda that for the USA to imagine it's righteously fighting a war against terrorism is sort of like Stalin imagining he was righteously fighting a war against totalitarianism.

Absolute nonsense, in other words. An extremely exaggerated case of the pot calling the kettle black. A very big lie.