And how pray tell do they rationaize the fact that their great god Allah has just allowed his holiest of holies to be blown into glass? Kind of takes the steam out of the whole Allah Akbar thing doesn't it?
Their entire way of thinking is based on rationalization. They could rationalize -- ahem -- a ham sandwich.
OBL wasn't afraid of our nuclear option when he attacked us on 911. He's not afraid of it now. In fact he would welcome it as a rallying point for 1 billion Muslims.
I sure we will use the nuclear option when appropriate. In the mean time we fight the WOT as we do now.