Islam is a threat, or radical Islam? I'm sure you don't mean the entire religion , as a whole, is a threat. Though, as I'm sure you're aware, there are some fundamentalist Christians who do. Are you one of those?
Soldiers would not have suffered harm in Baghdad, if Iraq had not been attacked under the false premise of WMD being there. Blame that on Bush. As for other incidents that you rattled off, since when did we start taking the lead from terrorists on how to treat enemies?
Boy, the head fear monger, the vice fear monger, and all the fear mongering media outlets, such as Fox News, sure have got you scared don't they?
You know during WWII, Britain was bombed almost everyday, losing thousands of their citizens. Yet you don't see them willing to sacrifice their principals out of fear.
First it was fear of the communists, now it's fear of the terrorists.You can can come out from underneath the bed now, the mean old terrorists are a lot weaker than you think.