This gets repeated a lot here, but it doesn't make it logical.
What is the tactical advantage in using your one nuke, pissing off the entire nation - and causing us to respond by turning the MidEast into the worlds largest glass sculpture?
The 'use your biggest stick' theory only works if your stick can take your enemy down on the first blow. If the Muslim plan is a long war of attrition, then there's no point in using your biggest and best first. You'd use it at a time to cause the most political, economic and military damage possible. Or you'd wait until you had more than one stick....
Those are certainly good points. I agree this war will be brought to America as a war of attrition. That being the case using your big stick at the right time is critical to those wanting to destroy America. Which brings me back to my main point, which was the forth of July is far to early in a war of attrition and all the terror alert are being generated by Islamic propaganda machines.
Of course they could believe that America resolve is so weak that a large scale terror attack coupled with poor economic would be enough to accomplish their goals. They may be skilled at terrorism but their understanding of America seem to based on Hollywood movies.