Not so,

The middle east was already full of Islamic militants, the Iranian revolution with Ayatollah Khomeini is a case in point.

That we could use an enemy as a proxie force to fight another enemy is actually good strategy. Fact is that these Islamic militants are nowhere near as dangerous as the old Soviet Union for the fact that the US could invade and conquer the entire middle east in a few short months. The Soviet Union with its large military, its arsenal of ICBM's, strategic bombers, nuclear submarines was a far more dangerous adversary.