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The New York Times' Hizbullah Terrorist Worship
(Telegraph-UK) Col. (ret.) Richard Kemp - Hassan Nasrallah was a vicious, murderous terrorist with the blood of many thousands on his hands. But you may not have known that had you read the New York Times' hero-worshipping eulogy of the dead Hizbullah leader, in which they labelled him a "beloved" and "powerful orator," who supposedly championed equality among Muslims, Christians and Jews. AP joined in the applause, calling him "charismatic and shrewd," an astute strategist, idolized by his Lebanese Shiite followers, and respected by millions across the Arab and Islamic world. At the very moment when there is a need more than ever to stand up for Western values, decades of indoctrination in moral relativism, where no one is objectively right or wrong, have weakened our resolve to the extent that a notorious terrorist leader can effectively be exalted by the media. Too many political leaders reacted to the killing of Nasrallah by calling on Israel to "de-escalate" its defensive war in a situation where de-escalation can lead only to defeat. The Guardian called Nasrallah a "political leader" rather than an arch-terrorist. He was indeed a politician, who succeeded in bringing Lebanon to its knees. His political agenda was not prosperity for his country. It was the destruction of Israel, the ejection of the U.S. from the Middle East, and the fight for supremacy of Shia over Sunni Islam, at the behest of his masters in Tehran. Hizbullah's violence cannot be ended by de-escalation and negotiation, but only by military defeat. We in the West don't any longer understand that, believing that there is a reasonable political solution to every problem. Fortunately, Israel does understand it and should be fully supported by us in its war to eradicate the enemies that are set on its own annihilation. The writer, a former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, was chairman of the UK's national crisis management committee, COBRA.