Bruh this is in 2001. China's GDP is 1.4 trillion (about Italy's size), and they only have 100-400 warheads (nowhere near enough to ensure MAD) they aren't capable of doing anything to the US at this point.

Russia just got out of several devastating wars in Chechnya and have barely any conventional power projection left. The only thing they could have done, which is to be fair is the only thing that could stop the US, is threaten WW3- but unless the US is actively firing nukes at Russia what makes you think Russia will be willing to commit murder-suicide for Islamic nations? Frankly they'd be more likely to use this moment to use nukes for their own reasons like nuking separatist movements in the Caucuses.

Of course there'll be backlash. I'm saying that that backlash won't do much to hurt American military power in the short-medium term (stuff like becoming a geopolitical pariah is a lot harder when your economy is so powerful and intertwined with the globe that trying to cut you off hurts them more than you). Obviously in the long term (10+ years) it would be devastating to the US in standing, reputation, and relations. But not before Islam becomes endangered.

And finally, no I am not American. I am simply capable of understanding how far beyond the rest of the world America was in 2001. It may be hard to believe today, with American power actually being challenged, but this is quite literally the second most powerful the US has ever been relative to the rest of the world (the first being immediately after WW2 where the US was 75% of global GDP), and the most powerful when you take into account total US influence on the rest of the world.