A simple, but apparently overlooked, fact about the way humans are

If it pays, people will do it, if it doesn't pay, people won't do it.
How simple is that?
As long as terrorism pays, there will be terrorists. "Professional Terrorist" is a career choice in some parts of the world, right up there with Doctor, Lawyer, Fireman, Teacher. It has high income potential, status, power, prestige. What more could an ambitious young man wish for?
We are now well into the third generation of professional terrorists in the middle east, where Israel provides an endless resource for those who wish to motivate others to kill and die. The Israeli government can be counted on to stir the pot whenever things calm down. Create a Kodak moment of bullets and bombs, film at eleven, edited to emphasize the proximity of large well-armed Israeli soldiers to small Palestinian boys with rocks. I don't know why the voters of Israel continually fall for the demagogues who promise to end the violence by escalating it 'til the enemy gives up. The enemy gets richer and more powerful every time the bombs are dropped. Fifty seven years of examples exist to prove this, but wishful thinking appears to have more power to persuade than observed fact.
The United States (America, to the rest of the world) has now entered into the equation. Being more powerful, and more remote, and more mythically engendered with invincibility, it has greater power to stir terrorist passion even than Israel or Russia, or any of the lesser foci of terrorism. We have reached a phase now where the American government can give a boost to terrorists just by talking; it doesn't even have to drop bombs, or send tanks into the streets. Just to make sure, however, the present commander-in-chief continues to send 'his' planes and tanks in to whatever areas are the most prolific recruiting grounds for new young terrorists. As when he was governor of Texas, he continues to show little concern for those who die as a result of his actions.
By making terrorism profitable, America is insuring that terrorism will continue, and continue to burgeon.
You would think a capitalist who supposedly understands the profit motive, like Dick Cheney would know this.
Perhaps he does.