" They should stand together onthe Capitol steps and issue the health care equivalent of Reagan's Berlin Wall ultimatum: "Mr. President: Tear up this mandate.
Earlier today, I was briefed by my national security team onthesteps that we're taking to protect our own people, and to stand with our Chilean friends.
"Margaret Thatcher took a country that was on its knees and made Britain stand tall again, " said David Cameron, the current British prime minister and Conservative leader, onthesteps of Downing Street.
On closer inspection, however, the United States and its allies have agreed to specific steps that stand to complicate enormously -- if not prevent -- the achievement of these high-minded objectives.