[dirtboy]

I totally disagree with the idea that they would do the worst first.

They could have told the U.S. when they were getting attacked in Afghanistan that they would detonate a nuke if the U.S. did not stop. They didn't. IMO, that is a de facto indication that the did not have this capability.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

If you want to understand them, you have to learn to hate. Not just a quick tantrum of hot rage, but cold endless consuming chilled to the bone hate. The kind of hate that not only lasts for generations, but grows stronger and more malevolent with each tick of the clock, each day, each year.

The kind of hate that makes a mother lace up an explosive vest on her baby, lovingly wrap a scarf around his neck, kiss his forehead a last time, and send him to blow himself to hell in a crowd of schoolchildren.

That kind of hate can not be satisfied with a single explosian, no matter how big, and how destructive.