[the lone wolf]

Also, what if causing a nuclear attack on Islamics by the USA is EXACTLY what OBL & Co. want?

It would cause worldwide condemnation of the USA.
It would unite the Islamic world against us, far more than it is now.
Many other countries would ally with the non-American side.

We will need to respond harshly to a WMD attack, but nuking 100 Islamic cities would be counter-productive at best. At worst, it would cause total war.

Currently, the USA dominates the world. A World War is just about the last thing we want, and nuking a bunch of Islamics is a very good way to have that happen.

[babygene]

"Also, what if causing a nuclear attack on Islamics by the USA is EXACTLY what OBL & Co. want?"

Your thinking is rather shallow on this... Same results either way.

[Strategerist]

but nuking 100 Islamic cities would be counter-productive at best.

You also can't do it without killing millions of Christians and Hindus and assorted other non-Islamics, either because the city itself isn't actually all "Muslim" (Beirut, Istanbul, Damascus, Baghdad...gee, can't forget about the hundreds of thousands of Americans in Iraq, Kuwait, and Saudi, etc.) or there are massive numbers of non-Muslims downwind in the fallout areas from Muslim cities (Nuking Pakistan, depending on the monsoon and wind direction, would put fallout over a wide variety of Non-Muslim areas. The same is true of Indonesia.) Also, hundreds of millions of Muslims are scattered around India itself, but nowhere a majority. Sort of hard to nuke India.

[Cronos]

Nuking Mecca and Medina would solve the problem. Forget about the other cities.

[jaykay]

We will need to respond harshly to a WMD attack, but nuking 100 Islamic cities would be counter-productive at best. At worst, it would cause total war.

Cause total war? It would Be the war. With the 100 largest Islamic cities gone and all military facilities in Islamic countries also gone, the war would be over minutes after it began.

[Chemist_Geek]

We will need to respond harshly to a WMD attack, but nuking 100 Islamic cities would be counter-productive at best. At worst, it would cause total war.

Currently, the USA dominates the world. A World War is just about the last thing we want, and nuking a bunch of Islamics is a very good way to have that happen.

Saying such things, you really are a lone wolf. A correct one! That sort of thing is exactly what Osama wants - a worldwide Muslim vs. everyone else war. Why give it to him?

[mad_as_he$$]

We are in a World War.

What few Muslims that would be left could be easily cleaned up.

We would be doing the world a favor. They are next.

The radical mind DOES NOT respond to reason. They breed both bodies and minds faster than us. Do you think Hitler would of stopped at England? Not a chance. If he hadn't run out of materials AND got the nuke first the world would be a vastly different place. No sir, evil must be destroyed - where ever it is found.