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.
All joking aside, I often wonder how much pain the Western World and the United States will have to endure before what has to be done will be done.
We know the loss of a couple of sky scrapers and 3000 dead in one day are not enough. 100,000 dead in a day? A million?
There is some breaking point, undertermined at this time, at which all the heads of the hydra will be decapitated simultaneously and they'll never be allowed to grow back.