Then perhaps you'd be interested in doing things in a way that doesn't inspire people to become terrorists in order to kill both our kids.
Hard choices, like those we made in the 40's over fire bombing cities filled with civilians (including cute little German and Japanese kids), lie ahead.
As a side note: When asked about his role in the Tokyo firebombing, Curtis LeMay said, "I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal. Fortunately, we were on the winning side." (See, e.g., here.)
More to the point, as Solson noted above, terrorists are not tied to cities. Flattening cities therefore doesn't stop them. All it does is inspire others to become terrorists in order to seek revenge.
Flattening cities therefore doesn't stop them.
Wrong....because those who are secretly supporting them will have a real good reason to stop....their families.
You just don't get it do you?
Please understand that based on twenty plus years doing business in the Middle East, a degree based on a major in Middle Eastern history and minor in Arabic, and lots of past friendships with Muslims, I should be the one who blanches at the thought of annihilating them. I simply don't anymore. My opinion about many things was changed for good on a September morning in 2001. But the change was based more on recollections of what muslim "friends" had told me of their beliefs, what I myself read in the Quran, and my understanding of history since AD 622 than on anything involving nineteen Arabs and four jets. That event just focused my attention on facts which I had till then refused to face.
I understand more than most about their history, culture, and religion and I'm telling you right now this will at some point (maybe in the far future, maybe not) become a question of them or us. At least it will be for those of us who feel conversion to a false faith or existence under their heel are not options to be considered.