When IS recruits soldiers, they do not market themselves in the Middle East and North Africa with religious visions but with thoughts of a Muslim people's home. It appeals to all the poor people in these countries who find it almost impossible to get a job and be able to start a family.
This does not take away the individual responsibility of terrorists. We must vigorously combat all those who resort to violence against the open society, whether they are right-wing extremists, Islamists or something else.
But there is usually both an individual and a structural aspect to everything. We must both fight the terrorist and the poverty of so many in the world which is the breeding ground for terrorism and extremist violence.
Many of the recent years' wars in Iraq, Syria and Libya and the standoff between Iran and the West have all taken place in oil countries. These wars, I conclude, are caused in a struggle for the last oil, regardless of the consequences of that struggle for the world.
Neoliberalism has never been good, but now it is deadly to everything the red-greens consider good. A green, left-wing social democratic and Keynesian New Global Deal is needed.