No got it the wrong way round, me personality I would nuke the entire region but all the idiot leftys won't like that, so boots on the ground is the way to go
I'm not sure if you're trolling, or being serioous.
"nuking" a region and killing tens of millions of innocent people would be your idea?
I suspect even that rather famous lefty Donald Rumsfeld would think that was a really stupid idea.