No not at all. I know because I was directly involved with the aftermath. The whistleblowing resulted in immediate Ofsted inspections under Section 8 (not your normal inspection but one directed by the Secretary of State) of ALL the schools under suspicion. Yes, the schools continued but the leadership and management, as well as school governors, and many staff, were removed immediately. New teams were put in place virtually overnight. I know because our site was one which directly oversaw the change in one of those schools.
I agree with your second paragraph. The middle-east is a ****ing mess tbh. The best thing that'll happen to that place will be when the oil runs out. Not only because the West will want nothing more to do with them, but also because the corruption and dictatorships will have one less thing to prop them up. They might just have to actually educate themselves and progress as a society. You see imo, the measures initiated by the west that you mentioned can only work when you're dealing with people who will betray what's in the best interests of their own nation to make a quick buck. This then feeds into the extremist ideology of terrorists who use this (wrongly) to sucker in the naive and hopeless. In the past I'd have said **** the dictators, let the people decide their own future with democratically elected governements. But then you see the Arab Spring, and I can't help thinking that was a failure. It certainly seems like it. How hopeless is that???? Imagine you live there. You'd honestly think **** this, nothing matters! Although maybe meaningful democracy is a gradual process which will take a century to establish after the Arab Spring, and will go through turbulent times during the process.
The actions may have come quickly after the whistleblowing, but the schools were running a fair while before the whistle.
A look into the Arab Spring and some of the other actions round there can be revealing.
There clearly isn't a short, simple solution, and a lot of players are now in their own game. The Kurds and Turks attacking a common goal, as well as each other.
As long as they can limit their own cash grab, I feel far more comfortable with a Russia US coalition than I would had Clinton and her regime been involved in that region. Interviews with people in the region seems to point at them preferring a strong dictator over a weak democracy. Many are tribal rather than regional anyway.

Had they dragged their heals afterwards it would be fair criticism. BTW the whole Ofsted system is politicised. The primary driving factor of any Ofsted grading is results/outcomes. Pupils achieving National or above, they'll go into a school with a predisposition to grade Outstanding, regardless of practise (I'm not talking about extremism here, I'm talking teaching practise). Whereas another school could be performing miracles in terms of their teaching practise, but as a result of circumstances beyond their control, because the outcomes aren't as good, they'll be graded as Requiring Improvement. Now, when you have a culture like that, it's no surprise certain things get missed. However, they get missed because of a desire to follow a political agenda that suits the governement of the time in terms of their Education policy, it's not as a result of some favouring of Islam or anything.