[Lancelot Jones]

"I say we nuke Mecca now and be done with it."

So, you would nuke Saudi Arabia now, ignoring our troops stationed there (not many left, but there are some), ignoring our 30,000 plus citizens there, and ignoring both the Mutual Defense Assistance Act of 1949, and the Mutual Security Act of 1951 between the US and Saudi government?

You would nuke an ally, ignore bin Ladin and Al Qaida, and call it a victory.

Correct?

Beauseant!

[thoughtomator]

The proper order would be to pull our citizens, pull our soldiers, pull out of the 1949 and 1951 agreements, and then nuke Mecca.

[SauronOfMordor]

As I've posted elsewhere: Why not have Mecca as a definite response target?

In World War 2, the vast majority of the residents of Dresden, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor. That did not save them.

In the following half century, we were prepared to incinerate a good chunk of the USSR in response to nuke attack, even though 99.9% of the people we would kill would have no responsibility for the Soviet attack.

Same deal if China launches against us

Islamic theology makes a big deal that they are all one big Umma, one community. The latest international Pew poll shows a great deal of support for bin Laden and terrorist bombing.

Fine, then. If it's all one big Umma, then lets treat it as such. A nuke attack on the US by ANY muslim entity, is an act of war upon the US by Islam as a whole. If they don't like it, then they should get more energetic about tracking down the radical extremists

[Bommer]

So, you would nuke Saudi Arabia now, ignoring our troops stationed there (not many left, but there are some), ignoring our 30,000 plus citizens there, and ignoring both the Mutual Defense Assistance Act of 1949, and the Mutual Security Act of 1951 between the US and Saudi government?

You would nuke an ally, ignore bin Ladin and Al Qaida, and call it a victory.

Bin Ladin is a Saudi!
Most of the hijackers were Saudis!
The Whabbi Religion is financed and spread by Saudis!
The military bases we had in Saudi Arabia, the Saudis asked us to leave!

The country we protected in the first Gulf War has us paying $2.50 for a gallon of gas!

Tell me this delusional crap again about an ally of ours?

[porkchops 4 mahound]

Till they frikkin GLOW!

[sheik yerbouty]

The Saudis are quite fiendly, judging by their actions..

[Lurker]

I'd pull our people out, and then announce publicly that the next act of Islamofacism on any coalition nation would result in the utter destruction of Mecca by any means necessary.

As far as ignoring those 'treaties' goes it seems to me that they've been abrogated by the government of Saudi Arabia already. Therefore, we have no obligation to abide by them.

So, in a word as a response to your question; yes under the conditions described above.

L

[Allegra]

So, you would nuke Saudi Arabia now, ignoring our troops stationed there (not many left, but there are some), ignoring our 30,000 plus citizens there, and ignoring both the Mutual Defense Assistance Act of 1949, and the Mutual Security Act of 1951 between the US and Saudi government?

These threads bring out the loons. When this was posted yesterday, a few of us came on and made fun of the loons, but I doubt they knew what we were doing.