However, they do care about their own survival, which is why the U.S. must maintain a credible threat of assured destruction.
In my opinion, President should unequivocally state that in case of a WMD attack on U.S. soil he will order to annihilate the terrorist state(s) responsible the attack.
What happens if no one takes responsibility for the attack? How much proof is required before we retaliate (and what if it turns out later that we were wrong)? What if the terrorists do not have any one country as a "home"? Who do you bomb then?
Choose one Muslim country we would like to get rid of, accuse it of sponsoring the attack, and annihilate it along with evidence of wrongdoing.
Most of the 911 perpetrators were from Saudi, so lets start with them... oops... family connections with the rich and famous... can't do that.
Where did you get that? OBL never took responsibility of 9/11, he flat out denied it. http://www.public-action.com/911/oblintrv.html As far as the rest of the "alleged" hijackers 7 are alive and well. Hijack 'suspects' alive and well http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1559151.stm "FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged on Thursday that the identity of several of the suicide hijackers is in doubt. " Also note, none of the "alleged hijacker's" names were in the passenger manifests. And none were identified by the so called "DNA" tests either.