whatever we do, it's definitely not the last two options. To get these kinds of people's attention is to hit them where it hurts. Remember in '84 when we bombed Qadafi? We killed some of his family and you don't hear too much about him anymore. People like this are people of action not talk, courts and laws do not affect them.
Fortunately we don't have to take a very high moral road in this situation. Whomever is responsible has lowered their standards to the lowest possible and started digging. If innocents, (in those countries, I don't think there are (ie Palestine, and that idiot who said "that's what they get for messing with Iraq." )) are killed during the retaliation, it is a causualy of war. They had every opportunity to stop it and they didn't.
I am concerned though if we take a nuclear option. Though I feel it would be most effective in sending a message, I do believe we would suffer a backlash in world opinion. But what the hell, I'm tired of my Honda always breaking down.
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