We didn't bring this on ourselves in the sense you are talking about. Our history in the Middle East might be a good recruiting tool but this is based on an ideology that nobody dare criticise or try and reform because they are too scared of being labelled a racist or a fascist! Remember a number of these terrorists are born in their European countries and never step foot in the Middle East. We could stop mass immigration from certain parts of the world, stop the radicalisation that's happening in certain faith schools and prisons for a start but then you'd have to admit that the problem was indeed linked to a religion and heaven forbid anyone did that!