I wish the President had just bailed off into the crowd and went to wailing on him. That would have been interesting. It probably would not be good international relations, especially in the Muslim world, and especially in Iraq; but interesting nonetheless.
Being up here in the UP, I have access to a lot of Canadian news. Several years ago I recall seeing a piece where then Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien was going through a line of people and greeting them. This guy came up to Chretien and said something rude, got in his face, and much as I disagree with Chretien's politics, he reacted properly by throwing an extremely hard right hook into the guy's cheek. A haymaker. Very unFrench-like. But effective. The old hockey upbringing; take no shit from no one.
W should have picked up the shoe and shoved it up the reporter's Muslim ass.