The strongest impact of al-Zarqawi's death will be felt in America, not Iraq
By Gerard Baker (THE TIMES, 09/06/06):
THE SKIES OVER IRAQ have seen many false dawns in the past few years. Each faint glimmer of Mesopotamian morning — the fall of Baghdad, the killing of Uday and Qusay, the capture of Saddam, successive elections and referendums — has quickly given way again to the everlasting night of war. The hope engendered by each breakthrough has been mocked so cruelly and so completely in subsequent months that we have become steadily and increasingly desensitised to any good news.
And yet there are some events so singular and so innately benign that they can still pierce the cocoon of cynicism from which all but the most optimistic observers view events in Iraq.The… Seguir leyendo »