To nuke or not to nuke? (ISIS)

I am in complete agreement with you MAJ Robert Petrarca. If one thinks about it the A-Bomb would resolve this entire mess. We need to kill each and every last one of them and the A-Bomb is just what we need to get the job done with a quickness. We bombed innocent civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, here there is nothing but evil that all the world wants to get rid of.

The Japanese are some of our best allies!

I know that the environmentalists will point to the long term damage that would be done if we "nuked" NW Iraq/ NE Syria. I will tell you that there isn't much to ruin out there. Very desolate. Little to no vegetation anywhere. So, I would say... go for it.

Well, we are the only country that has ever used them in war so there is that. Couple that with the fact that we would not only not be eliminating ISIS but we would be killing thousands of innocent people. Finally, those that we had on the fence or the radicals that we did not get would have a radioactive (literally and figuratively) sign to point at to galvanize the hatred towards the USA.

why don't we nuke all the commies and socialist in Russia and China along with a few others......we can always handle ISIS in a few years once we get some descent leadership in a couple years.....I don't mean the C word either ;)

"That is the question" (Angry Hamlet)

It's time

The biggest threat ISIS poses in my opinion is the psychological one. It's a little scary to watch someone saw a guy's head off with a steak knife while he obviously screams and gurgles once his lungs start to fill with blood - at least till his spinal cord is severed and he goes limp.

I was told that in WWII, we dropped a lot of 2-3ft long condoms all over Tokyo, labeled "Size: medium" on them. I'd say it made a statement. We should do the same to ISIS - their religion forbids any contact with anything made from a pig. Well, we in the South do have a big problem with an overpopulation of non-native wild hogs. I say we trap them, feed them the local roadkill, and ship them to known ISIS regions and let them loose.

Could you imagine how bad that would mess with someone? After he sees his cohort get trampled and eaten by a wild hog?

To start with ,the use of a nuke no matter how small the yield might be would open the lid on a host of negative things such as,!:Using it on such a target as ISIS would likely be a green light to any despots like N.Korea or Iran when they finally have one,to feel free to use theirs. 2:Using a nuke on such an unworthy target would very likely send the Russians,Chinese and everyone else (rightly so)to consider us the biggest threat.ISIS will have to be dealt with conventionally,it is not nukes that are needed to defeat them,it is moral courage and the absolute will to act and do what needs to be done by our leaders.Unfortunately in the west at this time in history,that is sorely lacking.
What is however not in short supply is hand wringing,cowardice and fecklessness.

If they would have done it back in 1980, I feel we wouldn't have this problem now.