there is no monolothic islamic terrorist enemy

De facto President George W. Bush and his allies in the GOP have ever since 9/11 tried to puff up "international terrorism" into an existential threat similar to that posed by the Soviet Union and world communism.

Well it isn't. A good piece from former CIA analyst Glenn Carle about how we have grossly overstated the capacity and indeed ambition of various localized Muslim terror groups around the planet.