Agree with you there. Americans have always went about their business as if no one would ever do them harm and wake up shocked one day when they find out they were fooling themselves. This time though there may not, probably won’t, be time to recover and win the day.
It is our national characteristic. The Japanese would say 米国の国民性。 They can see it. I can see it. A lot of Freepers can see it. But many Americans can not or will not.
You come to appreciate it from afar.
We sleep at dawn, then they move on us. It is the way it has almost always been. We even the score alright, but only after suffering a horrendous bloody nose ourselves first.