The problem of runaway extremism is why there were such brutal dictators running some countries. You had to be very tough, very hard, very unkind to the population to keep the crazies under surveillance and under control. The crazies had to understand that the regime would make you watch your family be tossed into a plastic grinder before they poured ho tlead in your ear then decapitated you. Rough as it sounds it worked for decades as a control method.
We have systematically removed these men who kept the extreme Muslims down or dead and now we have the extremists popping up globally. Could that have been the goal in taking out Kadaffi, Hussein, Mubarak and others, to deliberately unleash jihadists onto us?
Saddam Hussein was one of those dictators who contributed loads of money to Islamic terrorist groups and set up training camps in Iraq for them. He allowed Al-Zarkawi and Al-Qaeda into parts of Iraq. He only demanded that they not try to challenge him. He also tried to have Bush I assassinated. He murdered over a million of his own people. And he invaded Kuwait. Other than those things, he was a wonderful dictator.