My Sharia Moor

Sorry for the long wait between posts. Too much stuff going on to comment on how much stuff is going on!

The head of Al Qaeda in Iraq is dead, killed by U.S. troops in a bombing run after his whereabouts were determined by an insider tip. Weeks of planning and following the murderous "spiritual advisor" of the gang led to the safe house. The house is no longer safe, nor a house for that matter. And the subsequent seizure of documents, hard drives and other intel has led to the arrest or termination of hunfreds of Al Qaeda operatives. The Iraqi government believes this is the beginning of the end of AQI. All good news, despite the Far Left blogger rantings about Al-Zarqawi being a CIA plant. (See DailyKos, I won't link to it).

Some say that his death will inspire more terrorists to appear. Funny how that seems to be the convential wisdom, despite evidence that for every terrorist "created" there are more than enough Marines trained and willing to kill them. Until they get their kill ratio to under 100-1, more terrorists equals more targets.

I'm all for getting out of there as soon as the job is done, but not a minute before. This action has hastened the inevitable - the insurgents will eventually dwindle down to a manageable few, the Iraqis will take control of their own security, and the U.S. can send her men and women back home.