Excellent point, and it goes to the heart of the matter. The author's main fallacy is that he simply assumes his conclusion -- that flinging nukes around *would* "solve" the problem once and for all.
It's the same fallacy that too many posters on this thread suffer from. They think that this problem can be solved overnight if we merely use big enough bombs. It's a childish oversimplification.
The problem, of course, is demonstrated by considering our own situation: Did the US surrender when faced with the horrifying slaughter of 9/11? Or did it only enrage us and steel our resolve to exterminate those who did it? Would nuclear attacks on *our* cities scare us into submission? Or would they only guarantee that we would hold absolutely nothing back in an attempt to destroy the perpetrators, even if it took generations?
So what in hell makes anyone so naive to think that *our* nuking *their* cities would make them act any differently than we would? Is anyone here truly stupid enough to think that nuking some, or even a lot, of cities in the Middle East or elsewhere would just make them all go, "ooh, that hurt, we'll all be good little Arabs now and leave the US alone", instead of the actual response of, "The US has killed millions of our people, we must never stop fighting them, let every man woman and child strike at them until the end of time." That's not the "end of terrorism", that's the creation of unending terrorism, a thousandfold larger than the current Al Qaeda network. Ironically, that's exactly what Bin Laden *hoped* would happen.
And it's utterly unnecessary. We can and will easily win this war with very few casaulties (on our side) by exterminating Al Qaeda with our deadly conventional weapons, and *without* throwing gasoline on the fire. That's a win-win situation. You don't burn down the neighborhood to take care of a rat infestation.
Think, people...
And think about what you're advocating -- the greatest mass slaughter in human history, against men, women, and children, the great majority of which had absolutely nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks. If you think that's justified at this point, or moral, or likely to achieve any sort of positive results, you're insane.