In all the discussion about the killing of al Qaeda leader Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi (may eternity return to back to you the suffering of your willful creation) a comment on Rick Moran’s commentary piques my interest.
Badge 2211 Said: The killing of Zarqawi is great news and I have a different take than Rick does about its effect on the insurgency. Was it just a coincidence that 600 Sunni prisoners were released just a day before? Was it also a coincidence that right after the disposal of that Zarqawi trash can that the three most important slots after PM were filled (Interior, Defense and National Security)?The Arab world understands the acquisition and use of power, and public manifestations are usually the planned results of deals and decisions made in private. There is a role for timely forgiveness and gestures of good faith even among bitter rivals, if a level of common self interest can be agreed upon. The fact that a Sunni General will head the Defense Department of the Shiite lead government of Iraq may be a sign the Iraqi’s want to remain Iraqi, rather than subjects of the Caliphate to the east.
I think not. This could very well be the tipping point in the war against the Sunni insurgency aided and abetted by the demise of Zman and a political resolution to what was becoming a dangerous and bloody deadlock for the duly elected Iraqi government. Ahmadinejad and his agents in Iraq could suddenly find themselves with the klieg lights pointed solely upon them.
