The Incredible Lightness of Evil

The End of the Beginning & the Beginning of the End of this sad tale. As for attitude that led us to this sorry pass, Harper-Hillier-Cons' "scumbag" rhetoric & this via O'Malley: "Swords won't deny that there wre concerns, but reminds him of the need to balance sovereignty and human rights, and describes the efforts to define torture as "torturous". Punning. A daring move." If anyone ever wondered why I get so angry when I think of the evilly childish intellectual games played, with an eye to getting ahead in the world, on these existential issues of war & peace & basic standards of humanity, pace Mme. Krieber, that Swords pun, along with, in Graham's piece, that line about the direct causal relationship between a fantastically entertaining pro-war argument amongst smug chaps and a young soldier with his legs shot off, say it all (I paraphrase the Graham sentence, from a terrific article, up there with Richler et.al. - more on that another time).