Nationalism, Imperialism, Terrorism

It seems as if throughout history Imperialism leads to Nationalism which leads to Terrorism. An imperialist state begins conquering other areas and while people from all different social, political and religious backgrounds mix together, the need for social distinctions arise and people being to identify themselves with a certain land or area. Then these nations either aggressively fight for their own state (if they don’t have one) or aggressively defend it (if they can already claim a state as their own). This aggression has often been magnified to the extent that extremists take their nationalist action a couple steps too far, committing acts of terrorism in the name of their nation/state.
The Middle East has been shaped significantly by Nationalism and Imperialism and is being greatly impacted by Terrorism now. Outside nations (The US, for example) exert control over the Middle East because they have what we need the most, oil. When extremist groups committed acts of Terrorism the rest of the world responded in such a way that the Middle Eastern nations, rather than solely the extremist groups, looked like ones at fault. The nationalist ideas currently present in the Middle East have created enough conflict that it has become an international conflict.