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Maybe, but maybe not.
Sometimes you can avoid conflict simply by flying under the radar. It's entirely possible that the US is just too large and economically and culturally powerful to not be noticed, and hated, by people all over the world though.
My best guess is that if we had never got involved with mid-east politics to begin with, 911 would have never occurred.
So far, other than a couple retaliatory beheadings, and some spouting off at the mouth, ISIS has done nothing to the US, and has shown no serious motivation or intent to attack the US with terroristic acts.
As far as your point goes, I fully support our current level of support in the fight against ISIS. We have little need to make this into an all out war, the longer we keep ISIS tied up in Iraq and Syria, the less likely they are to be able to put any real effort into attacking us at home. Our only need is to contain them, and it's unrealistic to think that we could ever kill every radical Islamist who would wish to do us harm.
It's not like there are only X individuals who would do us harm, and we kill X, and it's over with. There are X today, minus whatever we kill, plus whatever new radical are recruited by ISIS or are created indirectly by the US in response to our involvement in the middle east. As long as we are involved with the middle east, we will always have enemies there.
They come for us because of who we are, not because of what we do. They plot and plan every day to do us harm.