I know some people here get a hard on thinking about nuking the Middle East but it ain't going to happen. What would we nuke? What purpose would it serve?
The only way to win the overall war on terrorism is to:
1) eliminate the terrorists we know of (what we're doing)
2) eliminate the Islamist clerics (I hope we're doing this)
3) saturate the ME with clever propaganda
I think that part of our problem is that we promote "doves" in the ME and they get bullied by the Islamists. We need tough leaders to emerge. Ones that can be dictatorial yet not malignant.
If there is anything else on the shores of the United States of America like 9/11, we need to put a stop to it because nothing less than the future of the entire world will be at stake. How we deal with the next one is as crucial as your next breath.
I don't know what would work. We can't blow up places too close to good places. We can't hit the West Bank with nukes, for instance. So what would we do?