As the world knows, nearly two hundred people were killed in Bombay, which is what Indians still call it instead of Mumbai, a fiat name. And the press wonders why? Why did it happen? Overpaid navel-gazers want to know, but not really.

It's very simple. Islamists hate the west. They hate America, Britain, and they hate Jews. They hate the growing financial sophistication of India and its links to the West. And they want us dead.

Which was apparent to me when the second plane hit the WTC on 9/11.

Why doesn't our media get it? Cannot they believe that they are hated too? Do they think it can be sorted out with a meet-and-greet? My biggest fear about the Chosen One is that he thinks that these things can be sorted out over a cup of strong tea but then he's callow in everything except voter and credit-card fraud, and stiffing workers.

The first WTC bombing told us what to expect but no one, including me, listened. For years we've had Muslims stating baldly that they wanted to die to kill Americans and Americans said, "No, they can't mean what they said," although some of them just died to prove it.

And now we have mass murder in India. I suppose that it will take some sort of mass murder in America to make these precious people get it.

Oh. That happened. September 11, 2001. And still they don't get it. Perhaps there's a reason that The New York Times, the flagship of polite, received opinion, is junk stock, just like their junk opinions, and will have to sell assets to meet debt repayment obligations which is still causing me a deep-seated glow of satisfaction. There is a reason that CBS, lowered even further by the big feet and ego but small worth of Katie Couric is thinking about buying news from CNN and blogging off it. Well, if you had that Couric woman eating 75% of your budget for nothing, what would you do? CNN has fallen behind Fox. MSNBC's Keith Olbermann has not only saved that virtually unwatched network by appealing to a small cadre of glinty-eyed leftists but such success that it has had has infiltrated NBC too, which says more about the parlous state of NBC than of the success of MSNBC. And ABC has decreed that its journalists cannot wear American flag pins. Reuters refuses to use the word terrorists on the theory that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. I suppose that the murders don't count if you say they're for, er, freedom.

The news rooms of America have very much a fin de siècle feeling to them as the talking heads explain why what is happening cannot be happening as they take time out from the (bankrupt) Sharper Image stores or leg-waxing parlors to condescend to a public that increasingly doesn't care because the public knows there is nothing of value left in the MSM. All that remains is its own narcissistic and solipsistic view of the world.

I suspect that it is axiomatic that the useful idiots are the last to know that they are.