Extraordinary Example of Reuters Bias

Get a load of the caption to the picture above from Reuters:

Female Palestinian would-be suicide bombers attend a news conference in Gaza May 21, 2007. Violent Muslim, Christian and Jewish extremists invoke the same rhetoric of 'good' and 'evil' and the best way to fight them is to tackle the problems that drive people to extremism, according to a report obtained by Reuters. (Mohammed Sale/Reuters)

It is stunning that a mainstream news source has so transparently revealed its contempt for the traditional basis of Western society, the immorality of the indiscriminate murder of civilians. Nearly all of the allied soldiers who saved the world from Hitler and Hirohito saw them as "evil," yet Reuters terms the great majority of its readers who hold this view "extremists."

One could try to write this caption off as a comical excess, but the truth is that half of mainstream politicians hold the belief that the lack of government programs (rather than ideology) is the root cause of jihadist terror. Here is one example from this week:

Peace Corps Part of Edwards Terror Plan

Senator Edwards is outlining a new national security strategy that includes the creation of a 10,000-person civilian peace corps to stem the tide of terrorism in weak and unstable countries.

Mr. Edwards's plan, which he presented in Manhattan yesterday, comes less than a week after he called President Bush's war on terror a "bumper sticker slogan" and said the current national security strategy has not made America safer....

The plan Mr. Edwards presented yesterday ? which he dubbed "A Strategy to Shut Down Terrorists and Stop Terrorism Before It Starts" ? calls for a 10,000-person "Marshall Corps" to deal with issues ranging from worldwide poverty and economic development to clean drinking water and micro-lending. He said investing in those areas would shore up weak nations and help ensure that terrorism does not take root there. That, he said, would allow the country to stop potential terrorists before they even join the ranks.