If America is attacked again, this time with nukes, biological/toxin weapons, radiation (dirty) bombs etc, contaminating our cities for years, killing thousands, possibly millions, sending our economy into the dark ages, what would be your suggested response?
Fight back, but you don't let the cat out of the bag for cheap political points.
There is an old saying of don't give your opponents a hammer to beat you with and with tanctredo's self-aggrandizing bombast, he gave our enemies the propaganda hammer to beat America with in the mid-east.