[Heyworth]

IF a WMD attack were to ever happen here (God forbid), the American response would be MASSIVE & COMPLETE.

There is simply no other way.

On who? If NYC vaporizes at the stroke of midnight on Christmas, and it turns out to be an AQ cell made up of Saudis, Yemenis, and Indonesians, based out of Rome, using a bomb bought from the Russian black market with money raised among Arab-Americans in Detroit, who would we bomb?

[mhking]

If NYC vaporizes at the stroke of midnight on Christmas, and it turns out to be an AQ cell made up of Saudis, Yemenis, and Indonesians, based out of Rome, using a bomb bought from the Russian black market with money raised among Arab-Americans in Detroit, who would we bomb?

Detroit.

[larlaw]

This is the horrific scenario I've been contemplating for quite some time. What if, God forbid, Al Queda were to explode a suitcase nuke in New York and/or D.C. How will President Bush respond? Do we nuke countries that continue to sponsor terrorism like Yemen, the Sudan, plus the axis of evil, killing millions of civilians? What if most of the terrorists originated from our "ally" Saudi Arabia? And do we nuke Mecca and bring about a final clash of civilizations? Or do we massively conventionally bomb targets across the Middle East?

I don't have the answers, but although the idea of a nuke exploding in a U.S. city is something I pray doesn't happen, it is NOT impossible, and something the administration has to be at least drawing up plans for...