Sorry, but as much as I hate our enemy, I have not yet become like them.
I do not wish to become like the animals that attacked us. However, unless we start to speak a language they understand, we can expect more of the same. More innocents will be killed because we lack the vision and the courage to make the tough decisions that will end suicide bombings.
Truman knew that his atom bombs would kill tens of thousands of innocent Japanese. His decision to kill those people saved the lives of at least one million US servicemen, and the anguish of many times that at home, and saved many million innocent Japanese civilians who would have died in the US invasion.
The same can be said for Arabs. Kill some now, so we don't have to kill millions later. Kill some of their innocent so some of ours may live. Those are the types of decisions you need to make when you make war. Sitting back and being very British about the whole thing only prolongs the problem and is worse than action.
I have to admit that I am somwhat borderline on this issue of whether to kill entire families of suicide bombers or imprison them (or if they can't find them, make them fugitives -- who still will not benifit from the $10,000 reward).
Children being killed by collateral damage is an unfortunate, but acceptable part of war when bombs are dropped. It is a different matter for a troop to move in to a household and methodically kill every single member, including infants. World opinion of Israel is bad enough now, but the outrage of such an inhumane act -- however justified -- would destroy the image that Israel is only targeting those who are attempting to annihilate them.
It is no different than our treatment of the prisoners at Gitmo (?). We have no doubt that any prisoners they might take (as in Pearl), will likely be tortured or murdered, yet we have not stooped to their level of inhumanity. And our treatment of our prisoners has nothing to do with the bleeding heart observers who attempt to cry foul at every turn. We will observe the strictures of the Geneva convention in spite of the fact that our enemies will not do the same.
In my view, the same would apply to the families of suicide bombers. Especially if imprisoning them might achieve the same results as murdering them.
We have not yet become like our enemy.