I don't think the term "bad" will be allowed.
Seriously, though, the treatment of terrorists as common criminals is typical of an early stage in a terror conflict, not the one we're in now. The latest bunch in GB happened to be laughably incompetent, and even they came within two blasting caps of a major tragedy. The next bunch might not be.
I think that we're all in a sort of Middle Period in the war on terror. We shall limp along, slapping a few wrists, suffering some low-level casualties for some period of time. Eventually, one or two of our larger cities will be atomized. And then we shall enter the Late Period in the war on terror.