Amen

I agree completely with this.

We need to get past this completely idiotic notion that we're in some war against a threat the likes of which we've never seen. Umm, Hitler? What about the entire British Empire?

I'll bet Americans in the late 1700's, 1860's and 1940's felt significantly more put upon by their enemies than we do now. Let's all take a deep breath, calm down and treat this problem with the perspective it deserves.