I prefer conventional but, I cherish the nuclear concept. Talk about your totally antiseptic cleansing...


The important point is to excise Bin Laden _et al_ (and I mean _et al_ in the most complete and extensive sense) like pustulated ganglia in a premetastatic state. And don?t let the surgical metaphor mislead you. The completeness of the procedure is foremost, the precision secondary and coincidental.


I want no one left alive to nurture, harbor or finance the terrorists. I want no one left alive to perform the terror. I want everyone left alive to know what will happen to them if they try.


We can take our lesson from what the Royal Navy did to slavers in the nineteenth century: intercepted them at sea and hanged them summarily (no trials; therefore no acquittals).