No definitely not. But we did abandon him in the 80s. The Reagan administration walked back their support for Rushdie to enjoy free speech. It was also our 1 of 2 failures that the Reagan admin oversaw in regards to militant Islam. It failed on Rushdie and failed on the marine barracks bombing. Those two events largely lead the camel jockey world to regard the USA as a paper tiger.
Still trying to figure out how this is my problem.