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During World Wars I and II, newspapers in America and Great Britain freely labeled enemy soldiers Huns, Krauts, Nazis, Slopes, Japs, Slant-Eyed Bastards, etc. Our propaganda portrayed them as depraved murderers, merciless baby killers and despoilers of womanhood.

Today, the media people tiptoe around with such soft labels for the enemy as insurgents, Islamic fighters, rebels and tribal warriors. Instead of comparing them to Attila the Hun or Hitler, our mewling reporters make them out to be some kind of Islamic Robin Hoods fighting for the rights of the oppressed masses. Is it any wonder that this not only glamorizes them in the eyes of the American and British public, but also emboldens the murderous enemy to continue and increase their efforts to undermine the resolve of the governments.

As anyone should know from the 40-year-history of the terrorist movement, there is certainly no glamor in hijacking airplanes and killing thousands of innocent people. There is no glamor to fire rockets into schools. There's no glamor in creating murderous explosions on roadways, in marketplaces, restaurants and police stations. There is no glamor in teaching young children to grow up to become suicide bombers. There is no glamor in capturing medical and peace workers, murdering some and holding the others for ransom.

Maybe, when the terrorists decide they can make political gain by blowing up an English or American TV station or newspaper office, or begin again to kidnap and behead reporters, the glamorization will stop. Considering the misdirected humanitarian attitudes of today's media moguls and mouthpieces, maybe not.

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