I would have no issue with carpet bombing after 9-11. Our response was too timid. Tactical nuke was an interesting theory and I first heard it from Col Hackworth as he ended up calling it correctly. He said the USA would get sucked into a multi front counter insurgency war for decades. His idea was to send a message to clean your shit up and don't F with us. If you kill 3,000 Americans you should pay the price. I wouldn't have Nuked nomadic goat herders, but I would have leveled a city for sure, carpet bombing as you call it. Looking back, we dicked around too much. We don't fight to win wars anymore. The Israeli's are doing it right.