If anyone thinks for a moment that we would not retaliate with nukes your crazy.
We would reduce islam to a smoking hole in the ground along with parts of Africa and most likely areas of Europe would feel the effects of conventional force as we invaded looking for radical muslim and islamic hide outs.
Those muslims here would find themselfs on the run from not only the feds but from brutal retaliation from the civilians as well...
The hunter would become the hunted in the blink of an eye and our goal would be nothing less that total anhilation of the vermin.
Well, I might be crazy, but not because I believe we wouldn't use nukes.
We live in a crazy, Matlock World. Even when people started dying of smallpox, there would be no PROOF linking it to any particular bit of real estate over there... The pols who demand _evidence_ couldn't risk "killing innocents."
Mark W.
We wouldn't have to.
If smallpox should be released back into the wild, I fully expect we will survive, due to our healthcare and general infrastructure, albeit with enormous damage - but it will be pretty much the death knell of the Muslim world. Since wealth tends to be concentrated in the hands of the few, those few will get good care, and the masses will die, and die, and die.
And it won't just be the more moderate Muslims dying, either.
In fact, I suspect the Islamists would be among the hardest hit, because they will have less access to the best health care.
And if there are any places where the people, so foolishly, should decide to rise up against the rulers and establish an Islamist government...
Then we'll nuke them.