Bangladesh, Feb. 15 -- Theres a peculiar irony in watching revolutionaries (self-styled or otherwise) commit the very sins they ostensibly rose to combat. Throughout history, from the French Terror to the Bolshevik purges, weve witnessed how the intoxication of power transforms liberators into vandals, and vengeance into vandalism. Bangladesh, it seems, is learning this lesson anew, and the wreckage of Gono Bhaban (official residence of the prime minister of Bangladesh) stands as a monument not to justice but to pettiness masquerading as principle.

Let me be clear: to desecrate public property in pursuit of personal vendetta isnt merely bad governance—its civilizational regression. When Muhammad Yunus and his interim administration...