Okay, the al-Zarqawi's death thing

At Unclaimed Territory, guest-blogger Hume's Ghost does a fine job articulating my feelings on the matter.

• Is it a good thing? Sure looks that way.
• Will it lead to a more peaceful, stable Iraq? Well...that's considerably less certain but I think it's fair to say anyone with the least scrap of human decency hopes it will.
• Does it, in one shot, rationalize everything and everything the United States did in the lead-up to the war and has done in the war itself? Absolutely not.

Hume says it a lot better.