That saying actually came from the genocide committed by the French Crown against the Hugeonots. Total all-out in your face war against what? The Arab people, who have been largely powerless as their countries have been torn apart by ethnic violence, revolutions, and despotic dictators? The only way to wage war against a people is to kill them, so genocide, cold, calculated murder against tens of millions of people is what you think will solve the problem. Think about what that means. That's not killing a person, or a town, or a country or even a region. That's killing an entire race. You know the last guy who tried to do that? That's right. Now his countenance resides almost daily on the History channel, and he will forever be remembered as the most evil man to walk the earth. That man. Ethics and posterity aside, to think that the world will stand idly by as the US exacts its revolting revenge on an entire race for the actions of a few is madness. By your logic, it would be total war against them as well. Not just any war, though, nuclear war. It would be the end of the world, the end of mankind. Then there would be nothing, nothing but cold, gray ash and the shadows of the innocent, etched by atomic fire into the concrete of the cities.
-Penguin