The celebration around him being killed is the most blatant example of moving-the-goalposts we’ve seen in a long time.

Consider the lofty goals of the occupation of Iraq, & by the administration’s (illogical) association the “war on terror”.  You mean to tell me we’ve gone from “Bin Laden: dead or alive” + “we will be greeted in Iraq as liberators” & visions of democracy blooming all across the entire region to celebrating the bumping off of a self-proclaimed underling of Bin Laden who needed help to use a rifle & was within range of taking out in an area of Iraq that Saddam didn’t control but was spared so he could conveniently be pointed at for insinuations that al-qaeda & Saddam collaborated, all the while Bin Laden is in the wind & even some of the neo-imperialists are questioning the wisdom of having invaded Iraq?

If no one else will say it, I will: Zarqawi’s death is completely irrelevant to the situation.  It’s good that he’s dead, but only in the way that it’s always good when murderers are made to stop. This is not a strategic victory in the slightest, do not let anyone get away with acting as if it is.