[Little Ray]

Nope. Maybe 20 million out of 1.2 BILLION Muslims support the terrorists and radical Islam. The rest are supremely indifferent or even on our side. Even if we get nuked, we ain't nukin' nobody unless we can "absolutely, for certain" identify a state sponsor, at which point we MIGHT retaliate appropriately.
For certain we won't be nukin' Mecca and Medina.

Its a pity, actually. They don't really care what we do to them, and have little to fear in the way of retaliation. That's one reason we're likely to get nuked.

[Monterrosa-24]

"...For certain we won't be nukin' Mecca and Medina..."

Don't bet on it. The weenie State Department mentality will be out after a truly massive USA death toll. Mecca has to be on the table. Two of the five pillars of Islam are linked to Mecca and they do care.

[Fishrrman]

Little Ray writes:
Maybe 20 million out of 1.2 BILLION Muslims support the terrorists and radical Islam. The rest are supremely indifferent or even on our side.

I'd like to believe this - but I don't.

- John

[finnigan2]

"Even if we get nuked, we ain't nukin' nobody unless we can "absolutely, for certain" identify a state sponsor, at which point we MIGHT retaliate appropriately."

- In my opinion, the US should quietly use diplomatic back channels right now to tell the leaders of both Iran and North Korea that should a US city be nuked by anyone that, within 24 hours, every major city in their countries will be radioactive ash - proof or no proof, they will be assumed guilty of the attack or providing the weapons for the attack.

[steveyp]

Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. And even if they weren't responsible for a nuke on our soil, they got next. Or Syria. Either would be fine with me.

[Kozak]

I think you are a tad naive.

"ONE in eight British Muslims back al-Qaeda-style terror strikes on the United States and almost half said they might consider becoming a suicide bomber if they lived as a Palestinian, according to a new poll."

Attacks on the US by al-Qaeda or other groups were viewed as justified by 13 per cent of the 500 British Muslims questioned. Another 15 per cent said they did not know whether such attacks were wrong or right.

3/15/04

"We have to come out and admit that we have a problem with extremism... it's a movement that's been growing for twenty years throughout the entire Muslim world." Nawash further claimed that many as fifty percent of Muslims around the world support the goals of the extremists."

August 9, 2004

" polls showed up to 70 percent of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza backed suicide bombings. "

Council on Foreign Relations