You do realise that's the point? Germany recovered from even all that shit. Therefore the US, which hasn't had to deal with all that, will definitely recover from the current comparatively minor shit.
"All that shit" was the firebombing. The foreign military occupation and partition was a necessary part of the recovery. If they'd just made Germany surrender, then pulled out and walled them off, Germany would still be impoverished and in ruins. As it was, parts of East Germany were never rebuilt and were still ruins at the time of reunification.
If you want to compare the US to Germany, then what you're saying is that only foreign military occupation and partition can improve the US, because the US is too far gone to possibly help itself. Now, I'm inclined to agree with that, but I'm not sure that's the point an American really wants to make.
You're missing my point. The physical damage does not matter. Homes and roads and buildings and everything tangible can be rebuilt fairly easily. What isn't so easy to fix and rebuild are the intangibles - respect, worth, trust.
Germany was utterly destroyed after WWII, and the physical destruction was just the tip of the iceberg. Germans were spit on simply for being German. All of them were considered guilty BECAUSE they were German - regardless if they weren't even born until after the war. That sort of trauma and destruction, of an entire culture, is magnitudes harder to recover from. But they did it. Is Germany perfect? Absolutely not. No one is. But compared to where they were after WWII, it's a breathtaking achievement. Because it's no longer a virtual crime to simply be German.
It's so much harder to regain trust and respect once you've lost it, especially if you trampled on it first. Germany destroyed itself, the rest of the world just helped make the destruction visible. The US is starting down the path of destroying itself - because we're losing the principles that we founded this country on. Whether or not that damage is visible to the human eye is almost irrelevant.
I'm not interested in a debate about who's at fault or when it started - because we're ALL at fault. Any American is at fault, just like all Germans were after WWII. And the simple fact that Germany managed to rebuild itself, it's character and culture, is great hope for the US today. If Germany can come back from WWII, than maybe the US can stop our self-destruction. Maybe we can address our problems. Maybe we can figure out how to listen and understand and work together. Maybe we can figure out that we're all human beings and worthy of respect and compassion, whatever our differences. We have hope, and you can do an awful lot with hope.