Cannoneer:

Perhaps you do. Have you the right, however, to make that decision not only for everyone else on Earth, not only for other species that certainly don’t have anything to do with our disputes – but also for all the generations yet unborn?

Missile-rattling is not the way to solve this. It also probably isn’t the way to solve the problem of the jihadis, either. Keep them talking while we work on something that will cut off their power and resources at source. Keep them talking, and the nukes unexploded, while we work on energy independence – and then let’s see what Russia and Saudi Arabia are worth when oil is $10 per barrel.

Starvation is just as powerful a weapon, if slower, as any gun.