Robert do you know of any country that didn't recover? they all do. However, there will be lot's of tears in between, by people like you and me.
To tell you the truth I think it's time to make some international rules on how the markets evaluate and rate countries. This is long overdue and there is lot's of talking about it here in EU.
Anyway I just hope for the good of everybody this is not going to have a long tail and it's just a warning, if USA goes down, it will take the whole world with it.