[logician2u]

Your descent into outrageous hyperbole is ridiculous.

Less ridiculous than the utterly irrational thought -- or lack of -- expressed earlier, implying that in destroying Mecca or the Saudis or others who some people have a beef with our War on Terrorism will end.

Au contraire, mon ami. That would be just the beginning.

[Mr. Mojo]

I agree with you that the suggestion of an earlier poster that the WOT would end completely with the annihilation of a few Arab cities is a bit far-fetched, but if WMD are used against us and we can positively identify the attacker as a particular government, what other choices do we have other than to return the favor ten-fold? Any response short of that would merely encourage more of the same, imo. And I don't buy into the argument that such a response by us would "create millions of more bin Ladens." In fact, judging by past reactions in the Islamic world to our display of power, my bet is that if anything, they'd start behaving themselves like never before. It appears that power and its deployment is the only language they're capable of fully understanding. Because their mindset is so alien to our own, a lot of Americans have a difficult time comprehending it.