Making someone do something by giving them no other choice isn’t “leading” them. Leading is when you convince people to want to do it on their own.
You seem to be confused about the difference between a leader and a boss, between a leader and a tyrant, between a leader and an oppressor.
A muscleman is not a leader. When you’re able to lead, you don’t need muscle.
Vladimir Putin is not a leader; he is a dictator and a murderer. He is a “stronger leader than Obama” the way Drano is a stronger pancake topping than maple syrup.
Saddam Hussein was not a leader; he was a butcher.
When people who oppose a head of state are imprisoned or killed, an 82% approval rating doesn’t say anything about his “leadership.”
Bullying is not strength; it is compensation for weakness and cowardice. Even schoolchildren know that.
Threatening to go to war over “gestures” is not strength; it is lunacy.
Strength is what people like John McCain, prisoner of war, demonstrate by surviving their ordeal, by suffering torture without betraying their country, by surviving and returning home and moving forward.
Toughness is what people like Barack Obama and Michelle Obama demonstrate when they persevere through accusations that they hate their country, and through the meteoric rise of hate groups whose heads are exploding because there’s a black guy in the Oval Office, and through the vile threats that have roiled, en masse, in the American underbelly during his years in office. And, of course, through years of accusations that he isn’t even an American.
Waterboarding “and a lot more” isn’t toughness; it’s violence. It’s war crimes.
You, sir, are not strong; you’re imperious.
You are not tough; you’re mean.
You are not, nor will you ever be, a President.