April 8, 2013: Margaret Thatcher has departed. Wonderful to her supporters and despised by others, she now rests upon her contributions. Is there a lesson learned? Maybe. Looking at British leaders for the last while, we've seen a few monumental figures with vision and resolve. Thatcher is among them. So also was Churchill and Gladstone. They are rare. Indeed they are the exception. Between Churchill and Thatcher there was no one, and after Margaret there has been almost no one. Maybe Blair, though he was caught up in the past and present. Articulate though he was and is, he did not command the world stage as did others. England's leaders have been populated and punctuated by true visionaries, and then replaced by unmemorable leaders and losers. This has been the nature of British affairs. In the US, we have seen Reagan, Roosevelt, and Lincoln - and in between, what? Affairs in the US are about the same. Yet, the same obtains for other world leading countries. In
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