"The Rise Of Mephistopheles"

Terry Glavin chimes in:

“It’s just politics. It’s not the end of the world here, folks.”

Like I said. I told you so.

When he arrived on the scene a little more than two years ago he sat down with your correspondent to give an accounting of himself. The unabridged, annotated version of that interview is here.

Starts this way: “I’m very struck by the difficulty Canadians have in associating a progressive social agenda with a robust internationalism that does involve the use of force. The minute you say that you’re in favour of holding steady in Afghanistan and seeing it through, it’s automatically assumed that you’re on the far right, or `Harper lite’, when really, nothing could be further from the truth. I’ve always seen my international commitments as being sustained by a belief in human rights, and my domestic commitments being sustained by a belief in equal rights, and there doesn’t see to be any conflict to me. It’s part of the same project."

One of the signatures on this document is his. It could be worse, yes?