One candle...

...passing light to another candle, passing light...

On the heels of the triumph of Iraqi voters last Sunday, I came across this "old news" from late January:

Afganistan Deploys Relief Mission to Indonesia

Say again? Yep, that's right. Afganistan. Imagine with me that the Taliban were still in power and sent a relief mission. Can't do it? Neither can I, and it's easy to see why. Such an act by the Taliban would strain credulity to the point of rupturing the very fabric of the universe... But a free and democratic Afganistan? Well, they learned their responsibilities from the most generous of models.

Afganistan Deploys Relief Mission to Indonesia

Let that roll around in your mind for a while. Seems the light from that "city set on a hill" President Bush referred to once is setting a few more candles alight.