Try looking at it from an Iranian point of view. It looks to them like the USA is waging covert war against them, and has been for a very long time.
Has been since the Iranian's started sponsoring terrorist movements that murder Americans. Remember that as soon as Khomeini took power, he said that the US was the great Satan and took the US embassy hostage. Very shortly thereafter, was sponsoring terror.
Dar al Islam is at war with us, whether or not we are at war with them. Always has been, always will be.
The Peace of Vasvár, and a thousand similarly one sided peace deals, prefigured Oslo and the rest.
The reason the US is in trouble in Afghanistan is state building: "Oh, the price of building a nation is our allies? No problem. We want peace at any price."
Those who are willing to pay too high a price for peace will never know peace.
As a result of the Peace of Vasvár the caliphate damn near took Vienna, which would have given them most of Europe. I predicted the price of our betrayal of our friends in Afghanistan would in the end be very high, and lo and behold, it has been very high.
The reason we have war now is the usual reason that it has been for a thousand years, that we were too eager for peace, and our enemies will never agree to peace.
Always, over and over again, we win a victory, and expect peace. No peace ensues. So we concede land for peace, as at Vasvár we abandoned our allies - and we get a war far more dreadful.
What usually happens is that the west wins an decisive and overwhelming victory, for example the six day war, the capture of Saddam, victory in Afghanistan, and then looks to cash in that victory, and then is distinctly confused and puzzled that it cannot find any teller to cash in the victory.
We generally think that the Battle of Vienna was the decisive turning point in the war of Islam against the west, and it was, but the reason that the Battle of Vienna was a decisive turning point and Battle of Saint Gotthard was not was that the Battle of Saint Gotthard was followed by the Peace of Vasvár, which gave away most of what had been won, similarly to the aftermath of the six day war, with the result that Vienna was almost taken in the Battle of Vienna, while the Battle of Vienna was followed by sixteen years of hard fighting, regaining everything that had been lost by the Peace of Vasvár. The battle of Vienna was a turning point
because the victory was followed up, treated as a basis for war, rather than a basis for peace.
When Islam attacks, you have to keep fighting until
they come looking for peace at any price. You have not won until they do. When the US made peace and dismantled the Northern Alliance, it was the Peace of Vasvár all over again.
We should have treated the fall of Kabul as the basis for utterly defeating the Pashtuns, rather than the basis for creating a friendly Pashtun government. We got a government that is in cahoots with the Taliban, and our aid money funds the Taliban.
We gave the Pashtuns Afghanistan back, and put our allies in their hands, in return for bugger all. For that, they despise us, and we deserve to be despised. It was a classic "what must we give you to get peace?" deal, resembling the the Peace of Vasvár and the end of the first American Barbary war.
The way to win against Islam is to realize that there never has been peace and never will be peace, only higher and lower levels of war.
And always, the level of war is lower in proportion to how much we are hurting them. Only when we have settlers taking their lands, do we get a level of war that is quiet enough that for us scarcely distinguishable from peace.