One of them wants to be everyone's friend; the other is emerging as no one's.
And yet: One yearns for a romantic past of domestic accord and accommodation; the other yearns for a past of superpower supremacy.
One of them cannot bury his impulse to reach out and hug; the other cannot suppress his impulse to mobilize and mug.
And yet: One of them is bewildered by the domestic rancor his initiatives hav…