"I believed I was right," he says, then leaves. Not escorted by guards - no cuffs in sight. Free to make his next after-dinner speech and pick up the fee.
Some may complain, protest that this dog, unsleeping, may not lie but others think "He did what he thought best, "God knows, there's too little faith these days!"
Say it was politic. Say it was a compromise, the lesser evil. Say even that it was unwise. Admit that one man cannot feel so many deaths and so should not try.
But do not fly like a flag a security of faith, a surety of right that ***** a nation condemning countless howling thousands to a voiceless end.
If you still cannot see that you might have been wrong then you are unfit to call yourself human.