>>I'd vote to put all nutcases like you (whether from the US or islamic countries) on one island in the pacific ocean and nuke that. It would really make the world a better place.

Sheesh, why do you European nutcases always want to nuke stuff in the Pacific? The North Sea would be a lot better!

;-)

Seriously, these sorts of talks are pointless. The nuke is the equivalent of a huge steam locomotive. It can still do its job as well as it ever could- but its day is done. The next round of atrocities almost certainly will involve chemical or biowarfare products that are much easier and cheaper. Therefore the goal for the West must be to remove the motivations that drive smart young people to participate in such acts. Seems to me that creating employment opportunities and hope for a better life is by far the best way to reduce the chances of attack. Look to Europe and Japan-US relations to see that attitudes and hatreds can be turned around within a generation or two as long as the young see hope for the future as opposed to a bleak downtrodden existence attributed to greedy Westerners who all live in Southfork ranches as seen on Dallas on the 15" CRT TV. In this respect, maybe exporting all the manufacturing jobs in the US to China was even dumber than it seems- the Middle East would have been a whole lot smarter.