The West's gutless media is again on the side of the thugs and the psychopaths

The Nine Network's 'Today' show led this morning's news bulletin with the headline:

ANARCHY IN IRAQ

With a doom-saying commentary got up by one of Nine's news scriptwriter, the viewer was treated to scenes of American soldiers struggling to deal with 'Islamic militants' all over Iraq. All terribly futile, of course.

The tone of futility and doom was carried over to Tracy Grimshaw's conversation with Nine's American Bureau Chief, Robert Penfold. There was no end to the fearful frowns and wringing of hands as they swapped the usual media cliches about any concerted action taken by the US to deal with the bitter enemies of Western Civilisation: 'the situation is spiralling out of control', 'anarchy reigns', 'on the brink of civil war', increasingly like Vietnam', and so on and so on. The entrance of Henny Penny running before the cameras shouting, 'the sky is falling down!' would not have been out of place.

The message of futility and the need to throw in the towel (representative of all media reports of the last 24 hours) is compellingly backed up by powerful propaganda scenes of Islamic militants shouting their slogans and brandishing their weapons in front of the cameras, that is, in front of an intimidated Western audience. These bestial militants, if they don't know anything else, they know how to manipulate the empty compliant minds of the Western media.

Supporting all this were announcements from the usual weak, irresolute, confused US democrats and sundry PC figures around the world. At the head of this backboneless bunch was the increasingly contemptible Teddy Kennedy. Will he ever take the hint?

But what was the military action all about? It is about what was to be expected in the battle for Iraq. It was about the rise and the subduing of mad psychopathic zealots who parade as religious leaders, but have real religious feelings and the true God far from their minds. It's about the psychopathic Moqtada al-Sadr, 'a thirty-year-old Shi'ite cleric' who with his followers wants to impose a brutal Taliban-style rule over the long oppressed people of Iraq.

The majority of the people of Iraq don't want one brutal dictator to replace another. This is what the surveys show. Most people in Iraq don't want violent zealots like Moqtada al-Sadr whose only promise is the Islamic sword on the necks of those not complying with his edicts.

The Coalition has the moral responsibility to face up to the likes of Moqtada al-Sadr. It has the duty to punish severely those individually and collectively responsible for the bestiality of Fallujah.

We can only hope and pray that the Coalition forces maintain their resolve and continue to meet the enemies of Western Civilisation with the courage so far displayed.

We should be honouring those US soldiers who stand on the frontline and sacrifice themselves for the sake of the rest of us. For, like Hitler and the Nazis, the Islamic militants not only want to subdue Iraq. Besides their explicit statements, the indiscriminate killing of men, women and children in the West demonstrates that they have their eyes on the rest of the world.

One of the great mysteries of modern life is the failure of some in the West to see this, to understand what needs to be done, and to summon the courage and resolve to do what needs to be done.