Being a world leader must be quite odd at the moment. There you are, minding your own business when suddenly, from behind, a short and rather ugly man appears and begins trying to get you to join in another one of his zany schemes.

Today he wants you to send more troops to Afghanistan. Barack Obama has promised lots of troops, and this short ugly man knows this means sending another 500 “units” himself.

“Let’s all do it!” he begs. “Come on! It’ll be fun! Yay! More troops!”

You consider this request for a few moments before replying, “Bit worried about looking like America’s butt monkey again are you?”

The short man sweats for a bit, stutters something about trying to save the world and you return to chatting to Zarkozy about the difficuly in finding good trousers for petite men.