As your leader about Italy’s flailing government clearly shows (“Unsteady as She Goes,” February 2, 2008), the country is heading for even more turmoil than we have become accustomed to. Sadly, all this comes at a time when the country’s economy is in serious trouble, as well. As I was going through the leader, all went well until I hit the very last sentence: “Poor Italy.” At first I thought it a fitting end to the story, but then I changed my mind: “Shouldn’t it be ‘poor Italians,’ instead?” A moment later I changed my mind again: “Aren’t Italians themselves guilty for this perpetual mess, anyway?” I went back and forth for a while. Only then it crossed my mind that I, too, was Italian on one of my grandfathers’ side. “Poor Italy” will do, until I change my mind once again.