>>54
Gassed, hell. Nuke the babyfuckers. I'm deadly serious. It sends the right message with the right symbolism.
When the Romans had had enough of Carthaginian raids and piracy, and they started taking their wars seriously and personally, after they took Carthage they ended up burning everything that would burn. They left no two stones standing together. And they plowed salt into the earth where the city stood, to ensure that nothing would ever grow there again.
We have the means to accomplish the same thing right now, only in seconds instead of months: cobalt-salted fusion bombs. Thousands of years from now, humans will look down from orbit to see the deadly radioactive craters that used to be Mecca and Medina, and they will shiver as they ponder the fact that it is not wise to provoke a nuclear superpower beyond all endurance.