A reader of another persuasion:

“GLOAT, and watch your pretend Teddy ride up the mound of civilian corpses

he thinks of as San Falluja Hill.

“Gloat, and see sucidal economic policies precipitate the worst economic

dislocation in 75 years.

“Gloat and enjoy the spectalce of a faith that imagines Torquemada to be the

Redeemer; prefers burning Joan to the miracle of the loaves.

“Gloat and chuckle as you watch a polity riven and divided by demagogue

fueled ever more implacable hatreds

“Gloat. Time and reason will bring you low.”

Time will bring us all low, Sir. That, alas, is what time inexorably does.

Reason, however, is shining bright today.