Yep, and in other countries we unilaterally made decisions for them that resulted in consequences that we couldn't control. And then we started or continued bombing them for decades.

The easiest way to create a terrorist is to kill his family member. Trump knew this. Terrorism here was at an all time low because we controlled the borders and reduced the killing.

We had to deal with ISIS directly because it was about to become the next caliphate, but this caliphate would've been built solely to destroy the West.