Afghanistan, again

Plus high-level report on Ukraine warns of 'historic mistake'

Watching Afghans in this raw (and graphic) video scramble to help victims of the deadliest earthquake in 20 years called to mind Chesterton’s “rush of life” passage in Mere Orthodoxy. Children repeat the same thing “through excess, not absence, of life,” he wrote. And “repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore. Hea…