If they'd used a tactical nuke instead of two airplanes, the damage would not have been any worse. In fact, it would have been less deadly. The people on the airplanes would still be alive.
We're denying that it's time -- by the book -- to invoke our nuclear doctrine, because we don't want to invoke it.
Until the "leaders" grow the balls to do what needs doing, the enemy will continue to feel confident that we're a paper tiger, and they'll continue to hit us in our weakest points.
And that's our homeland.
Aye carrumba! Those of us on the ground just outside the WTC would have been killed instantly. :-(
Yes. I keep wondering "what will it take?? 50,000 dead of smallpox? Superbowl bombed? White House? What??"