No doubt I'll be seriously flamed for this. But I've come to believe that what's needed is another Hiroshima. Select a Baathist town, give a warning and a demand that local "insurgents" surrender, and, if they don't, drop one. Repeat.
Will some innocents die? Yes. Will more innocents and more Americans die without harsh action? Probably. Will the left scream? They're screaming now. Will more Middle Easterners turn against the US? They're doing that now, but at a very low cost. We can at least raise the cost dramatically.
We've got to decide whether or not we're really in this to crush the enemy.
I believe the main reason AQ(and others) haven't attacked America again at home is just for that reason. The enemy knows it's coming - they just don't want to wake the sleeping giant just yet. Right now we're a divided country and they don't want to unite us.
There aren't any cities in al anbar wirth a nuke.
Well, I like it!