1,000 years? No way. There would be time recovering, and the economy would be damaged severely, but we wouldn't return to the Dark Ages.
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.
EXACTLY RIGHT. NO WAY would we sink back 1000 years. We were hit at Pearl Harbor, and in Oklahoma (home grown terror of course but no different), twice in NYC (1993 and 2001)and we bounced back and we will again.
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