Wouldn't a better strategy to stop terrorism in its tracks be to ban the importation of oil from any ME country that refuses to clamp down on terrorists or who funds terrorists?
Sure it would be costly, but at least we wouldn't have to kill a bunch of innocents, both in the target country, and everyone downwind (nukes aren't exactly clean).
I'd rather pay higher prices at the pump while encouraging domestic production and let the terrorist-sponsors go back to living in the 12th century financially to match their 12th century philosophy.
that would be the ideal, but how many Americans would be willing to do that, including our government?
Oil is fungible. The price is the same world wide. The big problem is that our refineries were built to refine sweet crude.