That's certainly one way of putting it

"Never in the history of the United Nations have we faced so many opportunities to create a safer world by building a better world." - President Bush's radio address, 9/18/04

Another way of putting it is, never before in the history of the United Nations has the US so fucked up so many places around the world that ANYTHING would be considered an improvement in US policy. So in a way the president is right, we've never had so many opportunities to improve US policy and better help the world and ourselves.