True enough, but it's really more than that. Islam is severely predestinarian. Kismet, fate, the way that chance events express the will of Allah, all extremely significant in the muslim mind. You see, the President and the Pope both making these territorial concessions, as you put it so well, are an expression of kismet. In their mind, it is as if Allah is telling the muslims its time to go for the whole thing, the time of the caliphate of the 12th imam is finally here, when world conquest can finally be realized.
Now I have no doubt that there are more cynical minds behind this orchestrated "collusion of the fates." Perhaps never in history has it been so easy for so few criminals to move so many human minds in a single wrong direction.
Yet in back of it all, God is still sovereign, and in the end He will laugh at those who thought they were so clever. There is light at the end of this tunnel we are in, and it is the Light of Heaven.
I had thought about elaborating a little more on how all these victories are seen by the single minded Muslims, as a steady path of ascendancy, as their modern break-out, but this time globally.
I thought that 9/11 would mean that we would start rolling them back, instead, in 13 years they have massively altered Western civilization and in many irreversible ways.