Fear (I have seen the enemy and it is me)

or should I say I have seen the fear, and it is me. I am paraphrasing a parody of a 1813 message from US Navy Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry to Army General William Henry Harrison after the Battle of Lake Erie, where he actually stated, "we have met the enemy, and they are ours.".

The USA has been in this position before, and FDR said it well in his 1933 inaugural address when a scared nation hung on every word through the radio wave and he said the words, "The only thing we have to fear.... is fear itself"

True words then, and true words now.