I guess Hitchens doesn't remember that many US administrations have deliberately targetted secular organizations by supporting fundamentalists the world over: in Afghanistan, in Palestine, etc.
It would have been a lot easier, with a lot less dead, if the US hadn't opened the Pandora's Box in the first place. It hardly seems fair to credit Dubya when he's just cleaning up the mess of his predecessors. And other Presidents will have to deal with Dubya's mess in Iraq. And so on.
Hitchens seems very Orwellian. And not in a good way.