War Criminal Invited To Take Tea At King's College, London.

"Foreign Office sources say they do not want to 'shine too much light' on the process, for fear of bringing delicate negotiations to a halt." Well, I do sympathize, of course. Appearances must be maintained, after all. Mustn't let down the side in front of the hoi-polloi. Gracious no. We can't have any indelicate public attention paid to our toff indulgences in diplomatic squalor and moral cowardice, now can we? It simply wouldn't do. Wouldn't do at all.

"After all, there are war crimes and there is the crime (established at Nuremburg) of planning to wage aggressive war. The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in the first place by indiscriminate violence, played host to al-Qaida forces that murdered several thousand civilians in one day on American soil, and for almost a decade has been employing systematic cruelty against civilians and fighting an undeclared war, without uniforms or formal command structure, against a force that is upholding a U.N. mandate for the rebuilding of the country. Moreover, during its period in power, it ran the country as a vast concentration camp, enslaving the female population and conducting a campaign of extermination against the Hazara minority. How is it possible to mention this enormity in the same breath as the forces that are opposed to it?"

The spectacle of this fascist gargoyle enjoying cucumber sandwiches with the crusts sliced off in the warm company of Eton boys can mean only that we are obliged in all fairness to give credit where the credit is so routinely claimed: Vindication for Taliban Jack. UPDATE: Didn't take long, I see - Give Jack credit for this and apologize while you're at it!