So, more than 100 Arabs are holed up in the Church of the Nativity and threatening a firefight if Israeli soldiers try to capture them. I saw a map of the area earlier and guess what's just across the street from the Church of the Nativity? A 7-Eleven? Nope. A mosque. Why didn't they go in there?

Trying to catch these terrorists is like a giant game of hide-and-go-seek with tons of safe areas. Every single mosque around the world is a safe area, and the terrorists know it. We don't bomb mosques. We don't raid mosques. The terrorists know this, so they hide troops and arms in there. Mosques become barracks, bomb-making labs and ammo dumps.

The solution, though distasteful, is to declare that there are no safe areas. If we have reason to believe that there is anything other than prayers going on in a mosque, we reserve the right to bomb them. And then we've got to do it.

There will be an uproar, but the safety of soldiers and civilians is at stake. If Muslims want to make sure that their mosques aren't turned into a pile of rocks, they'll police themselves and make sure that their militant brothers are playing "fair."