Is Nuking Mecca As Retaliation For A Terrorist Attack On Our Borders Crazy?
Rep. Tom Tancredo suggested such a thing, and our own State Department called him “crazy.”
This is what it boils down to: Is assuring the Islamic world that we’ll destroy the most holy of their holy cities should they attack us first a deterrent or an incitement to jihad?
Personally, I’m hesitant to support Tancredo. Mutually assured destruction might have worked when our enemy was a definable nation (like the Soviet Union), but when our enemy are the adherents to an extremist form of Islam who are scattered in nations throughout the world is it going to work the same way?
