Just look at him measuring his strength with the youngsters, straining his flabby muscles to show off in front of that cute girl.

Look at him, almost an old man... with his flabby stomach and spindly legs... bring, with doglike devotion, a fresh adept... who only a few nights ago was under his protection.

It is the weak nerve center of a flabby semi state, with almost defenseless frontiers, where humanitarian rhetoric masks spinelessness. But America s sporadic, erratic, and largely ineffective deployment of power is hardly of Martian quality.