When you look at it, the entire situation has come to this crisis point because, at every opportunity from 1944 - 2009 the US, the UK, and latterly the EU, forsook all of their core beliefs and values in respect of the promotion of democratic principles and institutions for oil.

1944 - USS Quincy agreement - horrible blunder.  Consequences?  The suppression of democracy all across the Arab world. 50 years of Wahabbist terrorism everywhere. The rise of AQ.  The rise of Isis. 

1953 - Overthrow of democratic government in Iran for the sake of BP - horrible blunder.  The consequences of this deed have been long, expensive, and horrendous.

1982 - 2010 - Refusal of the EU to make a realistic path for Turkish entry.  Result: Erdogan.  This is the cost of Islamophobia.

1989 - 2009 - Failure of US government to realise that a Marshall-plan-for-Russia was required to make sure democracy would succeed in the former Soviet Union.  Result: Putin.