I don’t know if reporters are just especially stupid or too lazy to bother to update their repertiore of cliches. Please get a new set, slackjaws, the ones from the late 1960′s are too retro!

Yes, many people in the media, in the Arab world, in the U.N., and muddledheaded liberals still seem to be “grappling” with the supposed “complexities” of the idea that terrorism against civilians is totally unacceptable, and are still trying to carve out special exceptions for the wily Israelis (I guess six-year-old little girls in Tel Aviv deserve to be blown up on buses), American soldiers in Iraq, Iraqi defense forces, Darfurians, and other unworthy groups, but this idea is dying as surely as the idea that command economies are a great way to achieve peace and prosperity died a slow and unrepented death.

No doubt the 18 men and boys found in Mosul today wanted to die or at least deserved to die.

This goes beyond language, this is rooting for the bad guys and what does that say about Reuters?

Someday this will be over and Iraqis like Omar will know who their friends are and are not, and the folks at Reuters will have to deal with that. They can’t do this forever.

When the election takes place will the same people who love to say that every vote counts be opently rooting for the people who want to stop an election in Iraq?

After all if the people there do not support the election, what is there to stop?