In addition, killing millions of innocent people brings us down to the level of the terrorists - we will become what we have beheld.
Nonsense.
This carries the," the state has no right to the death penalty or it becomes a murderer" thinking to it's logical
fallible conclusion.
A massive conventional response, or perhaps an attack with neutron weapons would still kill a number of people. I am no pacifist...believe me. My concern is that once the nuclear genie is out of the bottle there is no guessing where that will end.
I must admit, however, the temptation to turn somewhere in the middle east to glass in retaliation is, well, alluring from a vengeance standpoint. But that is precisely why that temptation alerts my concern.
Those two examples aren't even close. Now if you decided to hunt down and kill all of Ted Bundy's extended family...