ZARQUAWI MILESTONE

Zarquawi's dead and gone but the violent contagion called Iraq immediately spiked once again at the news-- Must be former Zarquawi supporters now in their 'last throes' to borrow a disingenuous Cheney analysis from the early insurrection-- No one is sorry to see the big bad beheader gone-- Indeed some among both Al Quaeda and the Sunni resistance are probably pleased-- Armed with the knowledge/intel that by and large most Americans are seriously weary of the war and very wary of the ominous economic clouds mounting their summer horizons, the Sunni insurgents must plan for a day American troops go home and their expedient and once vitally necessary alliance with Al Quaeda is probably not on the front burner of renewal-- Inflating Zarquawi's purported role and capabilities beyond his much deserved reputation for brutality capped off with a ridiculous $25 million bounty Doctor Rumsfeld sought to portray the rising idigenous insurgency as minimal and ineffective while ascribing the lion's share of the ascending violence to foreign born fighters-- Facts on the ground documented by our own military soon dispelled Rumple's account even as he persisted in defending his oneiric paradigm-- Zarquawi indeed appeared to have been somewhat marginalized in recent months-- Had he been killed early in the war before he convinced Bin Laden that al Quaeda must attack the new Iraqi police and army recruits so as to deny the provisional occupational government and anyone else interested in collaborating with the U.S. the air of legitimacy that is automatically conferred(to the degree of their demonstrable effectiveness) upon those able to muster such field forces, his death would have had a much greater impact on the insurgent proceedings-- The chaotically internecine mayhem that in many areas has been expanded splintered replicated retreated reconstituted and continually re-armed and re-financed in a non-hierarchically organized manner did not take its orders top down from Zarquawi anyway-- That he almost escaped due perhaps to the length of time needed to plan and execute a mission from the point actionable-intelligence arrived at the chain of command's top echelon delineates the difficulty of dousing so many different insurgent fires networking their destruction any and everywhere in the country--So far the attained milestones of our so called progress have met with more rather than less attacks many of increasing lethality and frequency from the obviously dedicated insurgency-- Their ability to sustain their fight continues unabated on time and terrain mostly of their choosing--The prospect of a successful conclusion(not easily rendered into a workable geographically tactical or strategic definition) to the neocon misadventure in Iraq is not made inevitable by Zarquawi's demise but no one should mourn his meeting with martyrdom however that is defined--