Eight years of wasted opportunity and counting.

Yes, Bush declared right after 9/11 that Islam was a Religion of Peace™ and that was that as far as the Bush Administration was concerned: there was no examination of the doctrines of jihad and Islamic supremacism that fueled the attacks, and there was no response to the ideological and civilizational challenge that the jihadists presented to the West. The Bush Administration did indeed "paint the Islamic world with one broad brush": it asserted without any evidence that the jihadists were a Tiny Minority of Extremists™ who had twisted and hijacked Islam, and assumed, again without any evidence, that the overwhelming majority of Muslims worldwide shared American values and would stand with the United States against Osama bin Laden and company.

"Muslim former CIA official whines about Bush, calls for alliances with stealth jihadists." Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch, 4/10/09.