[beezdotcom]

We are the old-time masters of international trade; we are the inventors of just about every sodding invention that has made man's life a little bit better in the last 400 years; we have the finest army in the world, and we have The Bomb; we have an economy that not completely screwed yet; and we have a market and an army that the US must still rely on. We aren't some ####y, little, lickspittle, third world country to be pushed around by sinister-looking men in 70s shades:

You had some sympathy until this part, then we all just burst out laughing...

[Jonah Hex]

It does sounds like somebody trying to over-compensate for small tallywhacker disorder, doesn't it?

;-)