@OmSigDAVID,
Anyway David your reasoning is severely flawed. First of all Moslems are hardly what could be called a unified group, as well as the obvious distinction between Sunni and Shia there are lots of different subgroups. There's not a great deal of concensus across the board.
In the Middle East, as well as the legitimate desire for freedom, there's also the sectarian conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran, which is a Sunni/Shia conflict. If you take the most extreme Al Qaida aim, it's about establishing an Islamic (Sunni) Caliphate across the historical Islamic world, which could include parts of Spain, Eastern Europe and Mediterranean islands. That does not include America. And this opinion is that of a tiny minority of Moslems, if it weren't for all the bombings they would be insignificant.
You talk about fear of nuclear strikes because you live in a port city. That would be suicide on Iran's part, America's quite big, and to successfully neutralise you as a military threat is pretty much impossible. Therefore the only point in having nuclear weapons is to deter invasion. Iraq didn't have them and was invaded, North Korea does have them and is safe from the threat of invasion. Stop sacrificing logic on the altar of ideology, and try thinking about this objectively.