[Houghton M.]

You didn’t. Poe did (#45), pejoratively. You jumped in to defend Poe by saying that the term can be used non-pejoratively. Fine. But Poe used it pejoratively:

“Personally, I don’t see what is being called for as “needful” by CiV as being anything more than a gussied-up version of a world empire.”

You got the response you merited.

[Quix]

He essentially said

". . . a dressed up version of a world empire."

That's how the document reads . . .

That's what the document warrants.

Of course, that's pretending that the document was NOT written out of the Roman Catholic/Vatican RUBBER DICTIONARY of DIPLO-SPEAK and WEASEL WORDS.