[island_dude]

The logic of proposing an attack of this sort is nonexistent. Treating all Muslims as if they were terrorists and threatening them with an attack on their collective holy places so beyond stupid its scary. Aside from the fact that the Saudis would probably no longer see us as a friend, we would basically put ourselves in the position of murdering hundreds of thousands of innocent people, some of whom are good Christians. Its on the same level of logic that say we should attack Iraq because the Al Queida people were muslim and Iraq is a Muslim nation and therfore responsible. ... Wait, that what we did isn't it? Pure Genius.

Anybody who thinks for a moment that this is a good idea pretty much doesn't value anybodies life Christian or otherwise. The fall out from an attack of this sort would pretty much turn the US into a target for every Muslim and for all of the nations who might have issues with us killing thousands of innocents. This would be a show of stupidity and weakness not strength, and I am not sure the country would survive the fall out.