It is not overblown, and I am ashamed you served America. Playing the "odds" game is meaningless. Once the threat to America becomes uncontrollable and all the defense effort in vain, then those "odds" you gave disappears in a flash. America and its people do not WANT to wait until it is too late to act. We are being preemptive and fighting terror now while we can still win! If America waited in WWII until the attacks came ashore, it may well have been the END for the United States and its people!
Liberals, will always have the mentality to just wait and do nothing. This is their entire belief system in life. "Live for today". Then when the destruction comes to their front door, and only then will they say..."Oh my GOD you were right!