And After All We've Done

Security and stability continue to flourish alongside the peace, freedom and democracy into which Afghanistan was bombed some little time ago. A suicide bomber has killed three American mercenaries, who were not named, and a dozen or so natives, who are never worth naming. It's the latest in a wave of attacks which have caused more than five thousand civilian casualties so far this year, making 2015 possibly the fledgling democracy's deadliest year since the nation-building process began. Like many of the crusaders for civilisation from 2001 onwards, to say nothing of the Righteous State during its frequent paroxysms of peace-seeking, the suicide bomber targeted foreign fighters but succeeded mainly in demolishing schools and hospitals and killing women and children. Fortunately, there is no moral equivalence.