I agree with everything you said Vader. The other issue at hand is that political correctness has now started to run our country. I no longer see the US as a super power. Sure, we have the best military and gadgets out there. But we as a society are so God damn worried about how others will view us, it prohibits us from being us. So instead of thowing a nice F-U their way, we go ahead and cater to their demands because "we dont want no trouble."
Now I completely understand the preemptive pull of the movie because they threatened violence. But instead of cowering everytime someone is mean to us, we give them a glance at couple fully loaded bombers and tell them, "your move".