I'm not defending terrorists. I'm saying that the word "terrorist" is being misused a lot these days as a scare tactic to justify wars of choice launched by the western alliance. Those wars have definite objectives. Their objectives are not to stop terrorism, but to secure USA/UK/Israeli/French interests in the Middle East and to win the longterm (undeclared) war of empires against Russia and China...which is mostly about having allies and client governments in strategic regions and controlling oil sources and markets.

And that's why the Middle East is the primary battleground. "Terrorists" are just the latest excuse for waging the great game of empire. It used to be "communists". Remember? It's always something. For Hitler it was "Jews and communists". People seeking to wage war always need something they can scare their own public with first in order to get them onside for their wars of choice. Hitler had his Reichstag fire, the USA had 911. Same basic approach...different target...different set of scapegoats. It's the Shock Doctrine. You shock the hell out of your own people with some totally unexpected disaster, frighten and anger them, focus all their anger on a foreign (or sometimes even a domestic) enemy, and then do what you'd planned to do all along...which normally involves killing a lot of people who happen to be in the way.