We doubt that this news deserves the "Man on Moon" or "JFK DEAD" headline fontsize it seems to be getting all over the internets, but it does seem pretty important:
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iraqi PM confirms Zarqawi death
Yet to be seen: Will it a) stop the insurgency? (350 to 1 against) b) Slow the stalactite trickle of American deaths and injuries? (280 to 1 against) c) improve GWB's ratings? (maybe in the very short term, until "a" and "b" catch up to him. You can take it to the bank, though, that he will be strutting around like he earned the kill himself tomorrow on your newscast of choice.)
Standing Eight doesn't cover foreign affairs much, but we do know that whenever the Cardassians killed a figurehead in the Bajoran "insurgency," a newer angrier deadlier figurehead rose to take his or her place (Bajorans were, of necessity, terrorists, but they are not sexists.) You may laugh, in fact we kind of want you to, but check back in at the end of the summer and see if our actual situation on the ground in Iraq is at all improved. And of course we must remember that it took 50 years and any number of dead zarqawis, but eventually Bajor won.
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