This is my point.

That Bush, Obama and Clinton before them, repeatedly said "This isn't a war against Muslims", their actions and deeds all pointed to continued (unjustified) confrontation with Muslim countries.  

We need a villain, and instead of looking inward for improvement, it's so easy to point "over there" and "fix" someone else's problem.

I'm always reminded of the Indigenous Canadian soldier who went to Afghanistan to "build schools and educate girls, and provided drinking water".  His comment was to the effect: I don't know why we can't just go up to a reservation and do these things.  There still isn't a good answer to this.