Osama on the Ropes

Fareed Zakaria believes the murderous religious fanatic is getting desperate. I agree. The Iraq war, for all its manifest failures in execution, and perhaps because of them, has had an unintended consequence. By revealing how al Qaeda and its surrogates have no qualms about killing far more Muslims than Americans or Jews, it has helped wean ordinary Muslims and Arabs off the Wahhabist kool-aid. Zarqawi may prove to be his own worst enemy. Here’s hoping.