As are most other (or all?) OECD countries at the moment. It would be better to compare with other countries inflation instead of the 2% target at this point.
The Fed's charter is based on comparing against our own targets though. If the whole building is on fire, it isn't useful to say the person in apartment 3b is doing well because their place is less on fire than down the hall
Fed is to a certain degree the central bank of the whole world. Other country faring worse does not absolve the Fed, because the Fed is the culprit for all of them.