[Jim Noble]

So what is the proper response to a terrorist attack in New York that kills 3,000 and injures many, many more? Is it an intellectual one? Or do we nuke Mecca and King Saud?

This was my prediction, posted here on 9/13/01, while the towers were still smoking rubble.

The "proper response" would have been to ask Congress on 9/16/01 for a Declaration of War on Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and for a 60-division expeditionary force to conquer, occupy, govern, and reconstruct those territories.

I would have used nuclear weapons, but only once. Whent Bin Laden was definitively identified at Tora Bora on December 4, 2001, I would have used a Minuteman III to erase him and the mountain top.

"Nuking Mecca and King Saud" would have accomplished the same thing as what I referred to in my post as "paving Afghanistan", or what the horrific and incompetent military actions in Iraq did - exactly nothing.

[rodguy911]

The problem with the middle east is that there is usually no good solution.

We take out Qdaffi and what happens? If assad goes what will happen there? If you nuke the kingdom who rules Saudi Arabia?

In all three examples you get isis, other terrorists or worse.Pakistan is a huge cluster the fact that they haven't used their nukes yet is a moder day miracle.

Our current regime has been fomenting terrorism and chaos throughout the Mideast for years now. They do it in Iran,Libya,Syria,Iraq,tried it in Egypt,Afghanistan and many other areas. The Chicago regime needs to go.

[jwalsh07]

And the response from Congress to your request would have been no declaration of war against Saudi Arabia or Pakistan. Then what?