Maybe we should show them what were are capable if our hands we not tied by the politics
That's exactly the problem: in their mind, there is no time in which America's hands are not tied by politics. President Bush's legalese ROE for the Afghanistan/Iraq did nothing to dissuade them of the notion, and Lord Ø's retarded efforts to "redress the abuses of his predecessor" only reinforce their certainty of the notion.
Personally, I'm not so certain they're wrong. If they were, I think the likelihood is high that Tehran and many other terrorist sponsors in the region would have been glowing glass bowls after the World Trade Center attack, take 2.