"Personally, I'd just nuke the whole region flat-n-glassy. "
Why aren't YOU running things? You got my vote! :)
I have said it before, I'll say it again:
The world had best be glad I'm not the POTUS - On Sept. 12, 2001 (9-11 is my birthday) - from the western border of Israel to the eastern border of India, and from the southern border of Russia to the Indian Ocean - all would be converted to a glass parking lot.
Select African and Asian nations would be told to get the 7th century savages in their midst under control or they would be next.
The world is too small a place today, and WMD's are too easily obtained to allow Nations to continue their uncivilized behavior. Such countries are an intolerable threat to our freedom.