I'd say General Patreaus deserves most of the blame. He's the one who brought the nation's attention to Jones.
If Petreaus were intelligent, he would now claim this was an information warfare operation using maneuver warfare art. By leveraging the Ground Zero Mosque debate, with the public perception of a Muslim President in stealth, then clamoring about some innocuous planted preacher of 50 making the 9/11 memorial a national Burn the Koran Day, he has been able to generate adequate public concern so that enemies of the US will tend to vent their outrage.
With so little time left in theater, he is now able to adequately target the most likely threats against the US.
(Of course, if I thought this had been his ulterior motive I would remain silent, but instead I suspect groupings of leadership with Hillary, Obama, and flag ranked officers who willingly burn Bibles are hardly savvy competent leaders, but might be confidants of whatever the cabal du jour happens to be.....)