On a rainy morning in April 1958, in Washington, Ezra Pound — then a 72-year-old man — was declared "incurably insane" by Judge Bolitha J. Laws, who set him free.

As he prepared to leave for Italy, Pound declared, "Any man who could live in America is insane."

I wonder what Pound — one of America's greatest poets — would think today of the state of the country, which is suffering from a long blood-letting process resulting from unjust, unjustified wars.