Words can't do justice to the moral hypocrisy. If you'll pardon my french: So called 'Liberals' are largely misguided idiots. Go ahead and watch your freedom fighters in action. Your 'Minutemen', as the insightful Mr. Michael Moore described them. Yes, it's a real crying shame the United States decided to take an interest in the peaceful oasis of the Middle East. We really ruined it for them.

[If you don't have the bandwidth to watch this video, let me summarize: A group of armed Islamic extremists read an extended diatribe of some sort while an American hostage whimpers in the foreground. Then, the Islamic guys take a knife and saw on the American's head while he groans like an ox at slaughter. Then, his head is torn off and placed on his body. Freedom fighters, Minutemen, god bless'em. Let's go to the table and negotiate peace.]

Actually, the people of the Arab world were screwed already, but the United States has offered a chance for rehabilitation.

Here's the real issue and the only one that will be argued in the historical aftermath: Why did we hold back during the first year of the conflict??? Why did we not kill more of them? What is the point of a war when you are not tasked to obliterate the enemy?

Yes it may be argued that the current Republican administration has been less focused on killing Islamic extremists than a Democratic administration would have been. You can make the argument. And we can laugh at you. Because everyone knows it is an absolute joke to think Democratic leadership anywhere would be more likely to disregard the voices of self-annihilating moderation.

What is needed is for the military might of the civilized world to rain death upon the terrorists. No United Nations, no international community. Just death for the bad guys. Watch that video - please - and tell me George W. Bush is not on the right track, save for the obvious problem of the U.S. taking too much of a soft-glove approach.

The only rational reaction to that video is, "Boy howdee, our armed forces should be doing more killing." We're not fighting against patriots for another country: We're fighting against animals. Kill them all.

Now, the question will arise: What kind of god would support such atrocities? And the initial answer would be: Go, Moloch, Go!

But here's a further glimpse into the religion of peace: Ask for Death!

to Seek Death for Allah - Shahada

'Ask for death' is the message that the Palestinian Authority [PA] has been conveying to its children since the start of violence in October 2000. In June 2002, two articulate 11-year-old girls were interviewed in the studio of official Palestinian Authority TV. Among other topics, they spoke of their personal yearning to achieve death through Shahada - Death for Allah - and of a similar desire they said exists in "every Palestinian child." It is striking that their desire for death was expressed as a personal goal, not related to the conflict with Israel. Having been convinced that dying for Allah is preferable to life, their goal in living is not to experience a good life, but to achieve the proper death - Shahada.

The following is a selection from their remarks:

Host: "You described Shahada as something beautiful. Do you think it is beautiful?"

Walla: "Shahada is very, very beautiful. Everyone yearns for Shahada. What could be better than going to paradise?"

Host: "What is better, peace and full rights for the Palestinian people, or Shahada?"

Walla: "Shahada. I will achieve my rights after becoming a Shahida."

Yussra: "Of course Shahada is a good thing. We don�t want this world, we want the Afterlife. We benefit not from this life, but from the Afterlife... The children of Palestine have accepted the concept that this is Shahada, and that death by Shahada is very good. Every Palestinian child aged, say 12, says �Oh Lord, I would like to become a Shahid." [PATV, June 9, 2002]....

A propaganda film-clip designed to offset a child's natural fear of death, portrays Shahada as both heroic and tranquil. The film's hero, a nice looking schoolboy, leaves a farewell letter explaining his choice to achieve Shahada, describing the death he is seeking as pleasurable: "How sweet is Shahada." It was broadcast repeatedly in 2001-02, even three times a day.

The following are selections from the boy's letter, which are sung accompanying scenes of the boy calmly heading toward his death:

"Do not be sad, my dear,

"And do not cry over my parting,

"Oh my dear father,

"For my country, Shahada�

"How sweet is Shahada

"When I embrace you, Oh my land!�"

"My beloved, my mother,

"My most dear,

"Be joyous over my blood

"And do not cry for me�"

The words "How sweet is Shahada when I embrace you, oh my land!" are sung as the child actor is seen in the above picture falling dead and "embracing" the land.

[PATV, hundreds of times since May 7, 2001. Recently September 27, 2002]....

Palestinian polls show that 72% - 80% of Palestinian children desire death as Shahids. In games and in conversation, the yearning to die for Allah is an integral component of the Palestinian child's worldview. Children are already acting on the indoctrination - a 17-year old girl has blown herself up in a terrorist attack in a Jerusalem supermarket. 14-year-old children have written "farewell letters" to their parents, incorporating expressions from PA propaganda film-clips. In the letters they took pride in their eagerness to die as Shahids and then set out on attacks in which they did, in fact, die. Following are some examples, listed by age groups.....

The Palestinian Authority has created a violent, death seeking reality for their young children, having taught them to see death for Allah - Shahada - as an ideal, which they are expected to achieve. As Arafat said in his message to children: "Is it not the greatest message to the world when that hero becomes a Shahid?"

The examples presented in this report are a representative selection, demonstrating the comprehensive campaign waged by the Palestinian Authority. If just 1% of the children attempt to fulfill their "duty" and seek Shahada through suicide terrorism, the ramifications will be cataclysmic. The targets of the future Palestinian terror wave will be Israel, and in all likelihood, other Western democracies, as well.

Today an entire generation of Palestinian children, victims of the PA's indoctrination and propaganda, believe that their death for Allah in war is the highest achievement attainable in life. This education is an indelible stain on Palestinian society, and places the Palestinian Authority among the greatest child abusers in history.

It is silly, obviously, to sugar coat a noxious cultural ideology. But it's what has been happening. Everyone should be aware of it.

UPDATE: Good and relevant editorial:

These are the best of days to be a terrorist.

If you can convince a wacko desiring 70 virgins to detonate himself and a car bomb in Iraq, you're guaranteed to see your handiwork leading the nightly news from America.

Then, the Democratic Party candidate wanting to replace the U.S. president you hate for standing up to your madness will personally cite your actions as proof that America is failing in Iraq and more than 1,000 of our heroes died in vain....

Chaos? Yes, but it's not all over Iraq. The chaos is in America, in the values of media and politicians who are making terrorists more powerful than they ever dreamed.