I’m Glad You’re Dead
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi apparently really is dead. Gandalf pointed out that many are dead who deserve life. This won’t be one of those. An awful, murderous man - the kind who makes us hope there really is an afterlife with a Hell for the bad people. I doubt it will make much difference to the future of Iraq, where the problems are about structure rather than personality, but to say that Zarqawi was a wolf to Americans and Iraqi civilians alike would be to slander wolves.
UPDATE: Christopher Allbritton thinks that this may in fact be “a big, big success for the Iraqis and the Americans.”
UPDATE: Fixed link to Allbritton piece.
Comment by Nell —
June 8, 2006 @ 9:48 am
Now that we have a tee-tiny ”victory”, can we please get the hell out? But no, it’ll just be another corner turned…
Comment by Ugh —
June 8, 2006 @ 3:14 pm
I’ve posted this comment elsewhere but:
Congratulations to President Bush for enabling Zarqawi to become one of the most successful terrorists in history and then killing him.
Comment by Barry —
June 9, 2006 @ 8:31 am
Anybody read the War Nerd’s column? More sense in that then in the entire establishment media/pundit pools combined. Here’s one on ’Mr. Big’, in general:
http://www.exile.ru/2005-June-03/war_nerd.html
Trackback by Blue Force —
June 14, 2006 @ 2:24 pm
“A Good Week…For Cowboy Unilateralists”
In light of President Bush’s victory lap-ette around Baghdad’s Green Zone inspired by the impending burial of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - and the commensurate ‘Zarqawi’s death is a watershed’ triumphalism sprouting up from so many f…