No, I'm sorry but that's just cope. You had one military that was pounding our soldiers and our top command was literally on the hot line begging Americans to stop. And our response was to close the borders - if you find that an acceptable response then I don't know what to say.
And no, they didn't need to repeat again, they humiliated us enough and continued to do so by using our OWN bases against our OWN citizens every single day, whilst we sat down and watched. This is utterly pathetic and shameful past of our nation. If you want to know what an appropriate response is, look next door at Iranians. That's what you call having self respect.
My point is simple, we're no match against major world countries and we need to humble ourself and accept the bitter reality, whilst at the same time work hard to improve the state of our nation.