In your leader on Italy’s upcoming elections you state that Silvio Berlusconi is “unfit to lead a modern democracy” (”A Leopard, Spots Unchanged,” April 5, 2008). Granted. In the following paragraph you state that he is “unfit to run Italy.” Are you sure Italy is a modern democracy, though? Judging from the fact that Berlusconi has already led three out of sixty-one Italian governments since World War II, this is a dubious assumption, indeed. Perhaps Berlusconi is perfectly fit to run poor Italy, a mess of a country for at least a century, if not since its very inception less than two centuries ago. Come to think of it, are you sure Italy is a country at all?