I like your thinking, but would we have known who or where to nuke?
Mecca? Right or wrong that would have gotten a whole lot of people's attention. Makes me wonder what the world would be like today if we had. I don't see how it would have been less safe and maybe we wouldn't have a mooselimb for president.
Yes Mecca.
We would be living in a far different, far more peaceful world than we are today.
The West doesn’t understand or appreciate the degree to which the entire religion is predicated on the belief that the shrine at Mecca is inviolate.
It can’t be destroyed, invaded, or defiled. It is a metaphysical impossibility that such a thing would occur.
Were it to happen, it would be faith shattering.