Internet kill switch

[Tellos Athenaios]

Well bear with me, but it's a king of interesting scenario nonetheless:

(1) For whatever reason Joe Lieberman gets his fetid wish and a the Internet Topkill is put into motion;
(2) The USA's root servers are seized and shut down. This means the ability to lookup DNS queries is severely impacted, although DNS caches still continue to provide some relief.
(3) ISPs are forced to comply, their DNS servers are shut down as well. Only major subnets employing their own DNS servers will continue to have some form of functioning internet, due to their own DNS caches.
(4) You just lost your economy because there's only like 5 geeks who know the IP addresses of all the websites they want to find, and they all point to some Open Source code project.
(5) Lieberman announces his victory, masterplan for global mistrust and dislike of the USA completed...?[*]
(6) Profit? Unlikely considering that all business relying on Internet just stopped 3 steps ago.
(7) Security? Unlikely considering you lost all ability to communicate between $agency1 and $agency2 3-4 steps ago.
(8) PR disaster? Sure thing can you imagine how pissed the likes of the UK are going to be? Russia is quietly thanking its foregsight to buy its own top level domain. Okay, no more youtube and no more russian brides, and yes it just did see its biggest export lose all market; but hey you can still visit the Russian ministery of truth websites provided you access it through its cyrillic domain name... <_<
(9) USA loses control over root domains as more and more countries seek to establish their own to provide relief...
[*] I presume his wish is to pay tribute to Bush, Cheney and Wolfowitz in making the USA a less loved and more reviled country. It's a plan of such stunning tactical and strategical brilliance it could almost have been conceived in Israel.