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"The ironic thing is the likes of Al Qaeda wish they were right. Indeed, bin Laden would be overjoyed if Mecca got nuked. It would be infinitely more valuable to him as a martyr-city, and of course the Saudi government would immediately fall to...quess who?...."

I believe you are correct.

The preferred reason as to why we won't nuke Mecca is quite simple. Cutting off the West's oil supply would cause the world to fall into economic chaos. In many ways it is the same reason we have not militarily intervened in Iran.

The thought, as I presume, is to surround and isolate our more formidable enemies and promote discourse/change from within. This is why Iraq followed Afghanistan. Although Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia where clearer targets (regarding the WOT), attacking them directly may have done more harm than good in the short run.

However, if a nuke should go off in the US, overwhelming force might be employed, but not at the risk of losing the Wests oil supply. Only a country that holds very little in the way of economic impact will be a candidate for annihilation.

We may very well come to blows in Iran and Saudi Arabia, but that will be the last option, when we know all other options serve no purpose.

Yeah, this is tough to swallow. However, people should think about this. What would the world be like if OBL and his cohorts controlled the oil fields (please, no one,tell me they do, because they don't - things would be far different today if they did), what would the world be like if the areas where the oil came from was unusable due to radiation.

IMHO