I blame George W. Bush squarely for not only failing to, but going out of his way to not identify islam with terrorism. By not clearly identifying the enemy and instead blaming it on some nebulous concepts that include molesting crippled nuns in airports but not purging the country of islamists aholes like this, Bush gave us a big steaming dump that is the source of all our recent military failures and miscalculations. He’ll go down in history as a likeable stooge.
W who campaigned on the idiocies of nation building - which he went on to prove again and again.