Just the Sort of Sensitivity I've Come to Expect in the GOP

Remember shortly after 9/11 when Dubya let fly with the "C word" (Crusade) in describing our military response? That slip of the lip was quickly explained away, but it will be a little harder to get out from underneath a GOP Congressman's idea to bomb Mecca. Colorado Rep Tom Tancredo floated that idea as a possible reaction to nuclear terrorist attacks in the US during a radio interview:

Well, what if you said something like -- if this happens in the United States, and we determine that it is the result of extremist, fundamentalist Muslims, you know, you could take out their holy sites.

To which a radio interviewer responded, "[y]ou're talking about bombing Mecca," to which Tancredo responded, "yeah."

Can we all agree that we should not be positing hypothetical responses to hypothetical nuclear attacks on talk radio? Can we also agree that such a response would inspire the entire Muslim world into a jihad that is currently being perpetrated by a small group of Koran-thumping fundies? Can we also agree that that would be a colossally bad thing?