We have got to stop pussy footing around. It's time to call a spade, a spade.
A year ago, Australians vomited over their breakfast when the photo of the seven-year-old Australian son of the infamous Khaled Sharrouf held the head of a decapitated Syrian soldier. The gruesome images were conveyed by the mainstream media like never before.
The ridiculous weekend proposal, blamed on a freelance producer, to give convicted criminal Zaky Mallah his own show, prompted a dry reach from me as well.
Mallah, who likes tweeting depraved and misogynistic tweets about gang-banging female journalists, evidently suffers relevance deprivation since his jaw-dropping Q&A appearance. 
Having insulted the laws and morality of the land where he chooses to actually live (that's Australia, the type of Western democracy he seems to despise) he should just keep his head down, count himself lucky he hasn't got on the wrong side of the evil regimes he advocates for and wander off into the sunset. Otherwise, book a ticket and be gone.
The publicity that terror groups like ISIS gets sometimes makes it seem that they never not been part of our world. But it is indeed only just one year ago since Islamic State swept into western Iraq, declared the establishment of a caliphate, carved out of their newly conquered regions of Iraq and Syria.
In that short time, there have reportedly been more than 300 people gruesomely beheaded by ISIS. And that doesn't include the thousands of people killed by other methods, but thankfully spared beheading.
That is nearly one a day. One beheading a day by these depraved things, the term of human being simply cannot apply to what we are dealing with.
We know that the tragic events of   September 11, 2001, are etched in our memories and the fact that part of the carnage was actually being broadcast live when it was happening, changed our world and our perception of terrorism forever.
Back in 2001, nobody could have ever imagined anything more terrifying than Al Qaeda led by Osama Bin Laden which had been responsible for several terrorism attacks in the 1990s, including the 1993 World Trade Centre attack, the 1998 hits on US embassies in East Africa and the 2000 bombing of the missile destroyer USS Cole in a suicide attack.
But now, ISIS almost makes Al Qaeda look like play school.
Which is why it was so disappointing to hear Labor's deputy leader, shadow foreign affairs minister Tanya Plibersek indulging in namby-pamby politics questioning the legal basis for any future Australian involvement in Syria.
I would have thought that she, along with all of our leaders, who would have seized at the chance to protect Australia's way of life from the most recent axis of evil.
This is the same woman who was recently advocating for Labor to axe the conscience vote on same sex marriage and instead adopt a binding vote, which sparked tensions within her own party.
For such a seemingly ardent supporter of gay rights as Ms Plibersek portrays herself to be, does it really need to be pointed out to her that while she fiddles with appeasement words, ISIS are busy throwing gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender people to their death off the roofs of buildings? Even people wrongly accused are not spared death by the most hideous of means.
If they happen to survive the fall, they are then stoned to death by the madding crowds who gather below to do the dirty work of their ISIS masters.
Perhaps a reminder is needed of the ISIS prisoners locked inside steel cages and lowered into swimming pools to drown or those who have a cord of explosives wrapped around their necks or the burning alive of the Jordanian pilot trapped in a cage after being starved for five days.
In case Ms Plibersek hasn't realised, ISIS don't give two hoots about what nationality, sex or religion someone is. When you are in Opposition you always have the luxury to be able to talk the talk without actually walking the walk.
All those not pledging allegiance to the caliphate declared by its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi are considered enemies, including millions of Muslims who don't subscribe to their narrow and perverted brand of Islam peddled by ISIS and their fellow travellers. Punishments such as beheadings, amputations and floggings are now the norm for anyone deemed a 'non-believer'.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott was ridiculed by the Left when he recently said, "ISIS are coming after us".
But he is right. Perhaps he didn't word it as eloquently as he could have, but the fact is ISIS are coming after us because ISIS are against everyone in the West and everyone who treasures our way of life.
Australia is indeed part of the West and whether you like it or not, we are part of the War on Terror because ISIS has declared war on us.
Our way of life may not be perfect but for goodness sake, it is envied by millions around the world.
It is our way of life that allows our girls the right to the same education as boys, gay people to actually live, to wear what we want, to holiday where we want, to go to the beach without fear of punishment and where women actually have rights and are not treated as chattels.
Someone should also point out the pure irony of the latest beheading of Croatian Tomislav Salopek, supposedly because the Egyptian government wouldn't free imprisoned Muslim women, given that ISIS don't even believe in the rights of women as we know them in the Western World.
While Ms Plibersek is quietly chomping at the bit to position herself as the next Labor leader, she might do well to remember the actions taken for the good of our nation by one of the great Labor leaders, Bob Hawke.
In 1991, Mr Hawke did not wait for "international law" before committing Australian forces for the first Gulf War in support of the United States-led coalition against the nasty regime of Saddam Hussein, following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
When the enemy is advancing it needs to be stopped and at the time Bob Hawke did what he thought was right in joining the Coalition of the Willing.
ISIS cannot be reasoned with. They cannibalise their own if one of theirs even disagrees, so there is no point in negotiating with then.
Australians deserve their present way of life to continue.
The very fact that you are allowed unrestricted internet access to read this comment piece shows another reason why we must uphold our democracy.
Of course this again raises the uncomfortable notion that Australian soldiers may once more be committed to play Australia's part in the War on Terror, putting the lives of our young men and women on the line in this cause.
But the thought of Australia instead being plunged into a seventh century world, if we let these bastards replace our amazing country as we know it, spurs on our defence forces to defeat those who want to take away your right to live in the lucky country in 2015 and beyond.
Karalee Katsambanis is a media commentator, media trainer, former TV news reporter and mother of three. Listen to her on 6PR's PerthTonight with Chris Ilsley between 9-10pm on Mondays.