Canadian Politics Today

When we got big and tough enough to fight off their attacks, you mean? Yes, unsurprisingly, when you grow to be the biggest kid on the block, the bullies seldom attack you.

The IRA was fighting against British domination of their homeland, and a far as I know didn't export terror outside Ireland - well, except to England, which made sense. The Fenians? Seriously? Whatever, they were also attacking the British who had taken over their homeland, and incidentally, treated them like dog meat there. Sikh terrorists aren't western based so no idea why that's even in there. They only exported terrorism against Indians anyway. That's why they didn't try to bomb Air Canada.

Western nations colonized most of the world. Most of the world is not attacking Westerners because of it. That includes Central/South America where the colonial hand of the US was very heavy indeed, and lingered well into the twentieth century. To blame western interference you have to explain why nobody else is producing these terrorist groups against the West. Africans have probably been damaged the most by colonialism and economic domination, and yet terrorism or even strong sentiment against westerners is absent outside Muslim states in the North. It's non-existent in Central and South America or in Asia, except where there are significant Muslim populations there, ie Indonesia/Malaysia/Philippines.