I don't think anyone sane or in a position of authority has seriously discussed bombing Mecca and other holy sites. America has never done that. It serves no purpose.
But what I was challenging was agincourt1415 statement that " The Strategic Think Tank sites already are speculating that this is the reason it has not happened yet, a back channel threat has already been transmitted. "
Do you have a link to think tanks that have reached such "speculations?" or any evidence of any back channel? I think he just made it up. Tancredo followers do a lot of that.
LOL! You are precious!
Of course America has done that. They've always done that. There are whole departments where THAT'S what they do.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/03/14/MN233349.DTL
I think the other was in National Review a few months back.
But yes, you threaten the things a Muslim Terrorist holds dear, and my question to you, Why would we not make a threat like that?
Nuke attack on America, all bets are off, all options OPEN!
In other words, we are giving them cart blanche to try and nuke us with immunity, if we don't make the threat.
But America DID almost seize religious property from the Mormons in the late 1800's over the issue of polygamy, and would have taken all the church's property (even though it was blatantly unconstitutional) if the Mormons had not abandoned the practice. Moreover, the government of Illinois, through its refusal to vigorously prosecute the mob that murdered Joseph Smith and his brother, tacitly winked and nodded to the burning of the Mormon temple in Nauvoo. America has a "rich" history of religious persecution prosecution--government sanctioned included.
You don't think we have the authority to take some mosques over the religious practice of jihadist murder? Of course, that doesn't relate to Mecca as it is outside of the U.S., but it would at least protect us from the islamo enemy within.