[EternalVigilance]

If and when a detonation of this sort or worse happens in an American city, within one hour this location should be vaporized and made unihabitable for a thousand years:

[nicmarlo]

NOW ON FOX

[WestCoastGal]

Aren't they all there right now too? Haj or something.

[sarah_f]

It should have happened 9/12.

The world would know 500 years of peace afterward.

[steve86]

this location should be vaporized and made unihabitable for a thousand years:

Because radioactive dust was spread over Boston or somewhere and the residents had to be evacuated for a few months? Is that a proportionate response?

Doing that might make you feel better for a few minutes but it would guarantee a thousand years of war to follow. Many of the moderate or neutral counties (including European) would declare themselves as enemies of the U.S. and would swiftly act to shutdown American-owned companies and trade thereof. Within a few hours of destroying Mecca hundreds of Americans would be executed in overseas countries. The Suez Canal and other strategic transit points would be closed to American interests. This all would occur in the first few days.

Is this the world you'd want to live in? Even in a religious war, you want to be a bit more selective in your targeting. I am a Catholic and wouldn't consider it proportionate if some military nuked the Vatican because some hypothetical Catholic fringe group exploded a bomb in their city. I won't be on the net for a few hours but folks should go ahead and flame me, I enjoy it.