[TAdams8591]

My response stands with or without nukes or WMD’s.

[George W. Bush]

My response stands with or without nukes or WMD’s.

Ah. Facts are no impediment then.

I keep wondering when more people will grasp that it is virtually impossible for such a scenario to happen in some little Jack Bauer melodrama.

You would either end up using truly medieval methods if "an attack is expected at any moment" or you would have to wait weeks if "interrogating" a dedicated jihadi by Guantanamo's methods thereby missing any chance to avert the last attack.