Starting with Jimmy Carter and the Shah of Iran in the '70's. The Shah's ousting was the birth of the Islamic extremist movement. Then Saddam, Ghadaffi, Mubarak, soon Assad, etc..
The Islamic Movement/Caliphate was not given 'birth' by Carter. It has always been there. It is a deadly beast whom we thought dead after WWI (Ottoman Turk Empire).
Well its back and it's 'deadly wound' seems to have been healed. A millennium-old Beast that most of us forgot about until 9-11. Yet the Islamic empires held more of the globe under their talons than the Roman Empire did.