Quickening

Afghanistan’s former president Burhanuddin Rabbani was assassinated yesterday while attempting to negotiate peace with the Taliban — a morally obscure strategy supported to absurd extremes by an America that’s pressed for time.

Terry Glavin’s take on this crooked path in today’s Ottawa Citizen is crystal:

In Washington, London and Brussels, the whole point now is to convince “war-weary” electorates that capitulation is compromise, that the whole nightmare was brought about by stupid neo-conservatives, and that the problem is an incorrigibly violent and uncivilized Afghan people in whom we need not see the basic human rights we ordinarily recognize in our fairer-skinned selves.

Stand up, Terry.