Apollo 11 didn't involve in-orbit construction tasks. No "assembly" more complicated than docking the CSM with the LM took place. You may not like it, but ISS is waaaay more complex - and thus more difficult to integrate - than Apollo.

This is not the Space Race anymore, Phil. Comparisons to Apollo and the NASA of that time just don't work. You just ought to accept the fact that the whole nature of the federal space program - and the issues that drove it - has changed with the times and politics. Obviously not for the better, but it has gone beyond the "do it before the Commies" stage.

-Kim-