[plain talk]

Actually we might as well. No one appreciates what we are doing over there anyway - whether we play nicely or not. We can't overreact but we must act and be perceived by these terrorists as strong and in control. Like calmly telling them to release the hostages because the game is over and they've lost and they are about to die anyway.

[jpsb]

That is was I am beginning to think, a Roman solution to radical Islam in Iraq. The world will howl and the usual anti-Americans will thump their chests and make fine speeches, but the USA will have delivered a lesson to Islam that Islam will long remember. Or we might get lucky an enrage the enemy so much that he comes out to fight, all of Islam, then we can take them all out.