Our native the-war-on-terror-is-failing chorus had to manage an abrupt change in tempo last week when the wicked Al-Zarqawi received his just desert. This advance is really a setback, you see; now we will suffer reprisals from angry terrorists.

Because otherwise they would have spent their time trying to understand why people of other cultures do not share their affinity for beheadings, engaging in a search for peaceful co-existence with Jews and Christians around the world, and campaigning for an end to Muslim atrocities in Sudan.