CHENEY.

While individuals like the Home Depot driver yesterday might be radicalized by any number of things, we've certainly sown the seeds of hatred and discontent for the past 15 years. Whether it's bombing wedding parties or blasting hospitals in Syria, we've done very little to ameliorate our own actions, and exacerbated any hard feelings by repeatedly denying any wrongdoing.

Do innocents on the streets of New York deserve to be retaliated against? Obviously not. But neither were the people collaterally damaged in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen by our military and its contractors. We need to own up to our own participation in these crimes against humanity.

The sons, nephews, and grandsons of the men who fought Charlie Wilson's war now have their own sons. It's not just the stories of missing family members, the vacuum created when the male role models disappeared was an opening for angry, militant men to recruit them.

Most of the young Islamic men who have committed terroristic crimes in western countries seem to be second generation westerners. In other respects theyre much like the young white men who have shot a lot of people - they are disaffected, rudderless, angry...

That's exactly what we are going to deal with for at least a generation.

But, yes, this is generational and on-going.