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All of which is exactly why we need to nuke Medina now. For those who don't know, it's the Muslim's #2 holy site -- the place where Mohammed is buried. Nuke it now, and hold Mecca, their prized jewel, hostage. Any terrorist who dares to "do" the USA again would then be guilty of destroying the very earthly presence of the very religion they are so very passionate about. A kind of modified mutually assured destruction. Medina must be nuked, NOW. We could even offer them a day to evacuate, since we are not so barbaric as to devalue the lives of civilians. We have 'em by the cajones and we have a good excuse. Are we smart enough to pull the trigger on the opportunity, though? Don't think so.

Perhaps I'm not thinking this all the way through, but what you just said sounds absolutely BRILLIANT! The only way that I might change it is to make the threat up front rather than do the actual deed. If you truly SHOW them that you mean it, that might just work!

We have to convince them that the price of setting off a mini nuke like this will be absolutely unbearable. That's a challenge for a people who glorify dying for Allah. (Though I understand that pig's blood ritually defiles them and then they can't go to Allah Land.)

I wonder if there is any way to detect the concentrations of radioactivity produced by a yet-unexploded portable nuke, from a satellite?