I figure if we nuke every square mile within Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Jordan, The Gaza Strip, The West Bank, Somalia, Pakistan and Afghanistan we'd probably stamp out the vast majority of current and future Muslim Fundamentalists. Then we simply tell the remaining nations that if they don't reign in their radical elements, we'll do the same to them...
Of course that would make us the worst mass murderers of all time. In one stroke we'll have desecrated the ideals and sacrifices of our Fore Fathers and spit on the grave every Patriot who has ever died for this nation. We are better than our enemies. We must hold the moral high ground or this struggle is pointless.
Retaliating against a terrorist's family (unless they are accomplices) is morally abhorrent and violates every principle our nation is founded on. We do not kill innocent people.
Killing innocent civilians by indiscriminate bombing is abhorrent. To the comment we did it during WWII, we did only because we had no choice. Unlike now where we can guide a single munition down a ventilation shaft and kill just the bad guys, we had no such capability in WWII. Then the only way to ensure destruction of valid military targets spread throughout a city was to carpet bomb. Had we any other choice, we would have chosen not to kill so many innocents.
As for using the bomb on Japan, that was only done after all other military options were exhausted. Japan was given an ultimatum before we dropped them. Japan chose the path of nuclear destruction. Even then I believe we grudgingly used these weapons after calculating it would result in the fewer casualties (for both sides) versus a full invasion of the Japanese mainland.
And in regards to the original intent of this post, the memory of those agents who died protecting this nation needs to be honored. That memory deserves better than us resorting to same cowardly tactics that took their lives.
