In Mitrovica, these two themes merge seamlessly and logically. And this brings me to a subject that occasionally comes up in letters, especially recently, which is why I spend so much time analyzing American politics. The usurpation of the power to make war, reserved to Congress by the Constitution, has swelled the American presidency into an office far more exalted and powerful than that of any Roman Emperor. When we elect the President of the United States we are really electing the Emperor of the World. If not, then we shall have to let history judge whether or not American politics is the primary battlefield on which the fate of the world is decided.
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