You said -- "As a nation, we have long since recovered from 9/11 in every technical and economic sense. Families still lost loved ones, and the WTC is gone, but as a nation and a culture, we continue to move forward. And if needed, we will do so again."
Well..., people have no choice except to survive -- of course -- if it comes to a major disaster. It doesn't mean that we'll be better off or will have a life style that we like or that we'll be back to the "good ole days". Those days will be gone forever.
One big blast by a nuclear bomb in a major U.S. city and you might as well get your photographs out and remember "what used to be" -- because it won't be that way any more.
But, people can live even in caves, if they have do. So, you're right -- we'll rebuild and we'll go on. It just won't be like it used to be.
All I can say about it -- is that people better remember where their true protection comes from -- which is from God (more specifically the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob). In these coming days that will be more important than bombs or the military or borders or Osama.
Regards,
Star Traveler
I was 3 months old (my brother was 4) when my dad went off to war in 1944 together with his 7 brothers. They all came home. Life went on. We were protected at the time. Nobody talked about the war in front of us. We were lucky kids.
And yet we have had a major city and several minor ones severely damaged in the past year and we are still going on as a nation with only minor adjustments.
So your "end of the world"scenario simply does not in any way shape or form match reality.