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>>I hope you are correct however my observations show me otherwise. <<

I think a synthesis of all of the above will happen in the face of a massive attack.

If a major WMD attack occurs in a big city or more than one, we can expect the market and the economy to collapse. As it happens here, so goes the world. All the western economies will collapse. All global commerce will cease, all air travel will cease for the most part.

This is not to say that there won't be local economies...there will certainly be and they will appear immediately. There will be massive food shortages in the short and near long term until a controlling authority starts forcing food movement.

There will be MASSIVE famine in China/India/etc until those governments start forcing labor to provide food where as now, food moves as it get's paid for. Food moves now because the people farming are feeding workers who are exporting goods, mostly to the USA. If the USA falls apart, those funds go away and it will take the iron fist of the chicoms to feed their people. In fact, China's sleeping police state is probably best capable of solving such a crisis(not that I support a police state or those commies).

There will also be a huge hole in the food supply in the USA until we adjust. Farmers will once again be popular and cities that require petroleum to exist will de-populate to sustainable levels. Land that is now idle, and there is alot of it, will start producing again. Enviro-weenies won't be very popular.

I suspect that were a massive WMD attack to occur, the country would take a number of years to adjust and afterwards would have significantly fewer people. Once that settled significantly, the constituion would become the prime document. Let's face it, the bulk of citizens of the USA won't tolerate a dictatorship beyond what might be necessary to make the country survive a massive attack.

I wouldn't relish martial law, but if a number of cities disappeared, what else could keep the country together? Of course, if JBTs showed up and demanded my food, they get to meet mr Mossberg.

Lets hope these Islamofascists are all turban and no Jihad.