Do you really think we would not be the agressors if we tried to "end" terrorism by flattening cities full of innocents?
Keep in mind that Lidice was destroyed in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by Czech partisans -- who were to the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, what the salamikazes are to our occupation of Iraq. There is no difference between what the Germans did there, and what some people are calling for on this thread.
Of course, there is a vast difference between us and the Nazis, in terms of what we stand for. Part of that difference is shown by how we react: the Germans destroyed and conquered, and Americans liberate and rebuild. But that difference disappear as soon as we start destroying cities in retaliation for salamikaze attacks.
Explosions are being reported around the site of the original airstrike last week; nothing more yet. (per Fox News)
These murderous Islamist thugs stage an outrageous provocation, and like answering a Pavlovian bell, the Freeper "kill them all" and "Nuke Mecca" dullards come bounding into these threads like dogs in cyber-heat.
Freepers who urge genocide and mass retaliation are doing the Islamists' work for them.