Originally Posted by spittle8

After nuking Mecca and Medina, no one would dare suitcare nuke us... unless they wanted some dead Muslims. Dude. It would be open season on Damascus, Islamabad, Tehran...

But, yes, his suggestion is illogical. After doing that, the only way the world markets continue to get oil is if we threaten to nuke them off the Earth for their oil. Too much could go wrong. Nuclear Russia might back the Middle East.