[garjog]

"If allah had any true Godlike abilities"
We joke about nuking Mecca. It doesn't seem like the moral or American thing to do. But, I wonder if we should start considering what actually would deter the extreme Muslims.

They don't care about protecting their women or children, outfitting them with suicide bombs. I assume that the US military would wipe out all military installations in the anti-American Muslim world if we are nuked. But would even that demoralize them?

If we were to level Mecca that might get their attention. It would that prove that their god is false.

This article sounds like propaganda, and it is comforting to believe that al Qaeda isn't up to building a nuke. However, we discovered plans to build nukes on their computers captured in Afghanistan. They have lots of money and contacts with Iran, NK and Pakistan. When Libya gave up their WMDs, we discovered a large underground covert nuclear weapons supply network.

The Bush admin has been warning us that the goobers could one day nuke one of our cities. It isn't so far out there.

[NetValue]

When your enemy does not care what you do to him because of the expected reward in the great beyond, your only possible way to win is unacceptable mass-murder, or what we are doing, i.e., changing his societies from hate-filled dictatorships to democracies so they will come into the modern world. It is called democratization. If it can be achieved, the Islamics will see that there is more to life than hating America.

This is a much longer and more difficult road to travel. It requires steadfast committment. I am not optimistic that America will stay the course on this since we have learned to avoid doing difficult things or things that take longer than a month to achieve.