perfidy

When even jihadis are telling you to chill the hell out, it's a cinch you've gone too far. Citizen Smash reads the latest letter between international terror superstar Ayman al-Zawahiri and blowin-up-in-Iraq terrorist Abu Musab al Zarqawi. His take: we're winning.

To wit, Zawahiri admonishes Zarqawi that the average Joe (or Jawarhalal, Jafar, or Jakub) really hates the "blowing people up and cutting off heads" thing he's doing so maybe stop that please, begs Zarqawi (currently on the lam in Iraq) to send cash to him, thinks that Iraq is turning out juuuuust like Vietnam (which implies that the terrorists, what... have the material backing of a gigantic and wealthy world power? Read the Democratic Underground? Oh-kay.) and, well, just go read Smash's thing.

It's a cautiously good sign that all the misery Iraqis are bearing might some day not be in vain. Given that an abatement in terrorist acts is probably a prerequisite for long-term stability in Iraq, and given that "you broke it/ you bought it" is currently the USA's lot, here is cause for hope.

(Of course, I'd'a been happier if things had never gotten to this juncture, but hey... you play what you're dealt when it's heads-up time.)