A friend of mine said something that sums up my view quite nicely: "Americans are making it hard work to keep on loving them".
Yes, the "war on terror" did more to recruit terrorists than reduce the overall threat/s. It was just an excuse for warmongers and arms profiteers.
For too many years (decades?) now it seems that the faction/s that think the only solution to conflicting politics is war\invasion\violence. Probably since the Second World War ... the CIA etc infiltration into other countries etc. The NSA is just more of same, just out in the open due to Snowden.
Drones and assassinations are also just new technology used for old programs.
Just look at how much flack Obama is getting for trying to find political solutions to Syria and Iran.
Peace is never created by violent means, all you can get is a temporary truce. Peace is something that you share rather than impose -- and this is why the Iraq war was such a fiasco.