What sensible observations, Poobah. No matter how satisfying it would be to drop the Big One (or a whole bunch of them), it's not a panacea. As the coup de grace against Japan, it made sense.
But blitzing Germany didn't. As the Strategic Bombing Survey found after the war, it stiffened the resistance of the enemy civilian population and slowed the Allies' ground advance by destroying bridges and strewing the advancing victors' path with rubble. Targeted bombing, a la Afghanistan, is the policy that works. Turning Mecca into a pool of black glass, as some Freepers tirelessly urge, would confirm the sand goblins' propaganda.
Post #21: I don't agree, Bun. I certainly pray that it will not come to this, but the only thing that brought about the end of the Third Reich and the Nazi nightmare was the overwhelming and total defeat of Germany and her unconditional surrender. It may take that to end the sick joke of radical Islam.
And if everything else should fail--that won't. It's what Rome did to Carthage.