Z"I was defending him, in other words, but you seem to have missed it."

I didn't miss it, Little Hawk. My point is that the two statements or concepts seem diamatrically opposed.

1) "You happen to be living in the present "Rome" and Obama is the new emperor." (Plus a lot more)

2) ""I fear that this may end up with Americans saddling him with the label of "wimp", as they did with Jimmy Carter.""

Which one is he?



"I think, sir, you are falling into an over-simplistic trap, confusing dominance with imperialistic aggression, and wrapping a complex, multi-faceted nation into a single cartoon of itself to fuel your affection for bombast."

That's a structurally PERFECT sentence, Amos, worthy of Samuel Johnson himself.