You can nuke the entire middle east to a 2-foot-thick slab of glass and thereby win a resounding traditional victory, but a handful of dedicated survivors with a few small glass vials can still terrorise your entire population and make people afraid to use the subway, visit the mall, send their kids to school.

Follow-up....we HAVEN'T bombed Tehran to dust, and yet we still have the same problem, and have had it for years.

John, what is your point???