The difficult aftermath of the war has also shown us that overthrowing a dictator is not enough to ensure security, economic opportunity and sustained decency.
The first is the wave of goodwill that followed Mrs Gandhi's act of renunciation and appointment of Mr Singh a man of unquestioned integrity, decency and economic expertise.
Such a belief flies in the face of both economic reason and basic decency.
Neither basic economics nor basic decency seems to matter.
Even the choice of a posh team hotel for the World Cup came under scrutiny by France's junior sports minister, Rama Yade, who called on Les Bleus "to show some decency" during the global economic downturn.
Decency is what separates rational economic actors, dutifully maximising their personal benefit, from the racaille, from scum.
Economic common sense, managerial competence, and basic decency have aligned like planets in a horoscope, and here's what that horoscope says: Go home, Bill.
You can stick with the Conservatives, who've shown competence, who've shown decency, who've shown a long-term economic plan that has turned the country round or you can put that at risk".
The Narracotts are tenant farmers at the mercy of their landlord (David Thewlis), and if "War Horse" pays tribute to solid British virtues of decency and discipline it also, like a Thomas Hardy novel, exposes the snobbery and economic oppression that are, if anything, even more deeply rooted in that nation's history.
The faster that the economics team and Congress heed the public call for simple justice and decency in financial matters, and the more rapidly that translates into a true Wall Street clean up, the faster will come the economic recovery.
