Saturday’s Daily Telegraph (free registration required) includes a superbly written and pertinent leader :

“The man with blood on his hands is not Blair but Zarqawi”

An excerpt from the leader:

There is a terrible illusion in the Western mind that somehow, if only we ourselves behaved a bit better, the situation would come under our control. People ignore the fact that victims will be kidnapped and killed whether they come from America, which prosecuted the war, or from France, which opposed it. It makes little practical and no moral difference to Zarqawi whether he kills a Christian or a Muslim (he has done plenty of the latter), a Turk, a Nepali, an Italian, an Egyptian or Mr Bigley. What he is trying to do is to internationalise the Iraqi question, picking subjects (such as the fate of Muslim women) which touch strong emotion in the Islamic world, and offering the most violent possible solutions. He makes videos of his atrocities for propaganda, being both utterly barbaric and yet alarmingly modern. The media should ask themselves whether they’re helping Zarqawi’s strategy, and therefore inflicting worse suffering on the family, by showing whatever the terrorists want.

What is it about the MSM that it works so assiduously to infantilize its viewers and readers?

Kerry and his MSM enablers are worse, far worse, than useless. Zarqawi plays them like a fiddle – and thousands die.