Cool heads are gonna be far and few between if something like that happens though.
Bored, I go back and forth. The part of me that looks from the present wants to be rational and determined in a response. The part of me that sees the aftermath of such an attack is already jumping on a winged horse and hurling fireballs at anything that looks at us wrong.
After 9/11 I contended that the U.S. needed to gain the reputation of a mad dog, unpredicatable, angry, and swift in attack. We're part way there, but political correctness has betrayed our soft underbelly.
I keep going back and forth.