[AmericanInTokyo]

Nobody looks forward to the next Islamist Terrorist Attack this summer in the United States, and particularly if it is as evil and huge as is being predicted (warned).

But we know what the response will be all throughout the land.

--Churches will fill up again.

--TV commercials, shows, magazines will center heavily on "family" and "country" and "what is really important" and will be wiped clean of the filth and violence that have creeped back in over the last 30 months.

--Violent crime will drop.

--People will STREAM to gun shops to buy pistols, rifles and boxes of ammunition.

--Liberals and other anti-American hand wringers, the Hate America First crowd, will again feel muzzled and intimidated, but will smile nervously and go along with the flow...muttering under their powerless breaths about "Bush".

--New gun owners will apply for licenses in droves.

--American flags will be everywhere.

--People will stare at certain 7-Eleven employees and gas station owners once again with silent suspicions...7-Elevens and other shops owned by Middle Easterners will bloom with American flags....but mosques will be firebombed.

--Millions of angry and vocal and perhaps even threatening Americans will flood those reporters or entertainers with e-mail who attack Bush or in any way rationalize the terrorists' actions.

--New songs in support of patriotism will flood the airwaves, by country and other artists.

--Thousands of American young people on campuses will turn from anti-war into military volunteers.

--Bush's approval rating will soar to 90% and he will in fact be re-elected by a huge margin.

--Michael Moore and other assholes like him may initially think the coast is clear, business as usual can be done, and make a few unwise, un-American comments, but will be silenced by a popular and terrifying (to them) backlash/avalanche, and nobody will buy their books or see their documentaries.

--Hilary will be fiercely booed again in public.

In short, America will be radicalized like we have never seen before, IMHO. Particularly if poor, innocent children are killed by the enemy.

And why? Because this all happened before in recent American history and it will be the American national characteristic (as opposed to the European sentiment) to defiantly and courageously respond in such ways the next time.

Just my take. We'll rebound...we'll rebound.....as bad and as unwanted as this thing may yet be, we will rebound.

[FreeReign]

But we know what the response will be all throughout the land.... ....In short, America will be radicalized like we have never seen before, IMHO. Particularly if poor, innocent children are killed by the enemy

Your long list was right on target. That is how America would respond.

All, which makes me thing that Al Qaeda will NOT attack America this summer or even this fall. Their goal now is to disengage us -- not engage us. That's the only way they can get Kerry elected.

[Teplukin]

--People will stare at certain 7-Eleven employees and gas station owners once again with silent suspicions...7-Elevens and other shops owned by Middle Easterners will bloom with American flags....but mosques will be firebombed.

so you think such a reaction would be good thing?