[Hanna548]

What should be done? Blow them off the map?

[AmericanInTokyo]

If handled correctly, that would not be necessary, i.e. to that extent. But the more this drags on, the more that becomes the only horrid possibility, other than that, WE get it ourselves (or our allies).

What was working with the Bush Administration was slow economic strangulation, which they abandoned from 2005 or so, in favor of State Department-led appeasement. It is a pipe dream to think Obama will go back to that policy, the best of all options, which means I am afraid this thing will fester and then really blow up in everyone's face.