It has been a historic few days. We have been reminded of a simpler time.

Mourners include those who are looking for answers to the pressing questions being asked in our country today.

They seem to be asking, What can we do about our country now?

Ronald Reagan embodied the great paradox that is America: wonderful ideals, yet a willingness to pursue policies that go against those ideals. Sadly we see the same gap between rhetoric and policy today.

Margaret Thatcher's attendance at Reagan's funeral is a poignant and important reminder of the special relationship between the United States and Britain and the ability of these Western liberal democracies to confront and defeat the evil of their times.