[Tail Gunner John]

Put the names of all Islamic capital cities along with Mecca and Medina in a hat. If we are attacked we pull two out and those two cities are vaporized that day. If we are attacked again we pull out three cities, etc. This should have been the approach since 9/12. Who can possibly identify those so-called unidentifiable terrorists among us? The mullahs and strong men in those cities can. Who can exert pressure (Islamic terror type) on those terrorists and their families? The same mullahs and strongmen. This MAD logic would motivate them to do precisely that, potentially saving millions of Islamists and non-Islamists in the process. Deterrence works as long as the retaliatory response is real, guaranteed and overwhelming.

[Quix]

SADLY,

Your reasoning is great survival reasoning and the only messages they seem to comprehend.

Not sure I like the parts of me that like your reasoning . . . but it's at least rational given all the givens.

[Travis McGee]

Our enemies (Islamofascist fantatics) would not care if we vaporized Arab capitols. That would just provide Allah with mega-martyrs.

When polled, Arabs regularly agree with this proposition: It would be a good thing if there was a nuclear exchange where 50 million Arabs died, but Israel was destroyed forever.

So forget about threatening cities to deter fanatical jihadists.

They only care about one thing: the black moon-god ka'aba rock in Mecca.

Devout Muslims believe that Allah would stop infidel missiles in space from damaging the black moon-god rock.

BUT, if the moon rock WAS craterized, this would constitute final proof to them that their Allah was NOT greater (Allahu Akbar means "our God is greater.)

The craterizing of Mecca would mean the end of Islam in a short period of time.