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I more or less agree with your analysis. We wouldn't fold up and die. The Soviets lost 26 million in WW2, but turned their entire country into a giant arms factory in order to first survive and then to totally annililate their would-be conquerers. We would do no less, regardless of the casualties. And if anyone we had blood in our eye after 3,000 dead, then several million dead would literally make the Earth tremble. If something even close to this scenario takes place, then the Arab world had better have a large supply of 1 million sunblock, or their going to have a real bad forever.

Strike "anyone" from my previous post.

I more or less agree with your analysis. We wouldn't fold up and die. The Soviets lost 26 million in WW2, but turned their entire country into a giant arms factory in order to first survive and then to totally annililate their would-be conquerers. We would do no less, regardless of the casualties. And if anyone we had blood in our eye after 3,000 dead, then several million dead would literally make the Earth tremble.

I have to agree with that. 9/11 induced shock, then horror, and then outrage. The giant stirred slightly and slapped aside the Taliban as one would a pesky fly interrupting your sleep. But the deaths of even just tens of thousands would so enrage the populace that these clowns would realize the true meaning of anger.

US Factories were once turned into the armory of the world, I have no doubts that they would again if the need ever arose. I don't think 9/11, as atrocious as it was, was enough to give the entire nation an "it's either us or them attitude." Something on a larger scale certainly would, and as the Japanese later discovered, you awaken the giant at your own peril.

The Soviets lost 26 million in WW2, but turned their entire country into a giant arms factory in order to first survive and then to totally annililate their would-be conquerers. We would do no less,

We not only would do no less, we did more. We supplied arms and food to our own armies, and those of most of our allies, including the Soviets. Of course it was a little easier for us, safe, more or less, behind the two largest oceans of the world, but it was also less urgent for the same reason.