Distant carnage: Out of sight ...

ATROCITIES in faraway places hardly ever provoke the kind of reaction a car bomb or a shooting in a city we might have visited once upon a time do.

A terror attack in Peshawar does not resonate with us as loudly as an attack in Paris might. Distance and a lack of familiarity all contribute to something close enough to disinterest in carnage wreaked in faraway places — and we pay a heavy price for this disconnect.

Yesterday’s bomb and suicide attacks in Afghanistan fall into that category even though at least 20 people were murdered in attacks in Kabul and Badakhshan.