Take just half the worlds budget spent on "arms", redirect it towards eliminating poverty, disease, and starvation, education to an acceptable "global" standard, and give everyone a “common interest” by making it compulsory that "ever child be taught how to sail”, and there would be no "terrorism".
What good are guns unless they are discharged? What good is “power” unless it is used (or abused) to “control” the disenfranchised? What good is food unless it is eaten? What good are the “starving” unless they die? What good is “wealth” unless it is distributed? Money is valueless in it’s own right, it is only good for what it can buy/do, and there appear to be three “main” choices, 1, hoard it, 2. Waste it, 3. Use it to improve the “common good”. It is, after all, just a convenient means of “barter”!
The biggest problem with “power” is that it is always in the hands of the “powerful”, and the more power that they have, the more power that they want. “ A little power corrupts, total power corrupts totally” and after all what is the point of having great power if it is not exercised whether justified are not? If it is not imposed, there seems to be no real point in having it. (This is always the “logic” of the powerfully endowed).