Re US's democratic choice - It's like the doctor telling the patient, after some investigations of his illness." I have some good news and some bad news. I'll give you the bad new first. The bad news is that you are ill, you have two separate cancers that will likely kill you. . But the good news is we should be able to treat one, but not the other, and that you're lucky to have a choice as to which you'd like us to treat. "