How to Make a Terrorist in Seven Easy Steps

  1. Exploit the natural resources (oil, rubber, coffee, enslaved labor/manpower) of developing world nations over the course of generations;

  2. Ensure that educational and employment prospects in those same exploited nations are eliminated through punitive economic and political sanctions;

  3. Nurture hatred and resentment through brutish bigotry that publicly mocks and belittles the cultures, religions and ways of life in those exploited nations. Add salt to the wound by labeling other societies "uncivilized" when they aren't like you.

  4. Flaunt your excessive and elitist wealth that was acquired from other people’s natural resources and labor;

  5. Scratch your head when people around the world hate you and your way of life, and then seek to do you harm;

  6. Respond to that hatred with massive military intervention that further reduces the educational and employment prospects of future generations in those same exploited nations;

  7. Repeat.