More child-like evasions from you, unsurprisingly. I guess I'll have to be more direct: Do you think our nuking of innocents in Japan and firebombing of innocents in Germany in WW2 was unjustified? These acts were taken with the express purpose of inflicting as many civilian casualties as possible to break the will of the enemy. I happen to believe we did the right thing. And if you happen to agree, then your statement that it's "kooky" to retaliate with nuclear weapons against "innocents" in the birthplace and breeding grounds for Islamic fanaticism - Mecca and Medina - in the event that Islamists set off nuclear devices in U.S. cities is wildly inconsistent, to put it mildly.
Retaliation only against individual terrorists (as is your suggestion) is extremely difficult. (Just ask the Israelis). The only chance we have to successfully fight this kind of enemy is to take it directly to the nations that sponsor and "educate" these nutballs. Thankfully the Bush administration realizes this all too well and that your kind isn't in office (just yet, anyway).