Bruce, you're scaring me.
Although one thing could stop the US air corps... if they run out of cheap oil ... and their planes can't fly! Ha! :p Who's laughing now?
But saturation bombing the area, last resort, you know, it'd mess up all the oil infrastructure.
How about a neutron bomb?
kill all living things and do minimal damage to hardware...
Seriously, though, how about weaning ourselves off fossil fuels?