While that is a point, you are missing the big picture.
If Bin Laden nukes a city, normally moderate people like me will demand a complete anhiliation of Iran/Syria/ect in response. Where does that end? Who knows?
What else would I want? Who knows? Lie detectors before allowing immigrants to enter this country? (And I'm not a complete isolationist, my wife is Japanese.) Require everyone on the US, even citizens, to go through periodic lie detectors to ensure that they remain patriotic? Establishing technology checkpoints that require a badge to go about your daily life? Who knows what other nutty ideas I would have? Okay, much of which is far fecthed, but life will be very different.
It's safe to say the world will be radically different.
Different yes but oddly the same.
Who knows what other nutty ideas I would have?
And you would get the authority to do that from... where?
It's safe to say the world will be radically different.
Sure. We would have a city to rebuild and someplace to stomp.