Violence Begets Violence: The Orlando Shootings and the War on Terror

Until we start addressing the U.S. government’s part in creating, cultivating and abetting domestic and global terrorism—and hold agencies such as the FBI and Defense Department accountable for importing and exporting violence, breeding extremism and generating blowback, which then gets turned loose on an unsuspecting American populace—we’ll be no closer to putting an end to Orlandos than we were 15 years ago when nearly 3,000 individuals were killed on Sept. 11, 2001.