you guys realize that while "nuclear winter" in the classic sense wouldn't occur and they cannot directly target us, they can irridiate everything, right? They won't block out the sun but if they set off enough nuke, the fall out will be spread and eventually, we will feel the effects of mass radiation poisoning. They don't even have to detonante their nukes anywhere near us or even luanch them. They can just set them off on the top of a buildinging in their own country on a particularly windy day. The radioactive particles will float around in the air and be carried over to us and everywhere in between. I assure you, even if they cannot deliver the payload here, if they feel it is the apocalypse, they will have NO problem pulling off the ULTIMATe Kamikaze attack- setting off as many nuke in their own country as possible to irridiate everyone else. so i suggest we stop making them feel like we are attacking islam. It will only make it worse. ideas are bulletproof. ideas can only be defeated by more influential ideas. If you want to eliminate radical islam, you send moderate muslim cleric over to where the radicals are recruiting the poor, offer them stable lives with jobs and food through said moderate clerics, and disguise all western interests in their land as muslim interests. The common person will not feel like they are being invaded by "infidel" forces and will slowly convert to more moderate idology. without poverty to fuel antiamerican hatred and no obvious signs of our involvement in the middle east, thy have no reaason to radicalize. remember, islam was a very peaceful religion before the west started taking their land. convince them that this isnt happeneing anymore and they will gladdly follow moderate imams. Radical islam has harsh rules that even devout muslims have a hard time living by.