Most excellent news. Another terrorist regime has been destroyed.
All in all, the War on Terror is going quite well:
1. Al Qaeda has failed to hit the US in 5+ years(If you had done a poll on this question on 9/12/01 you would have gotten 100% saying impossible)
2. They really haven't hit Europe that much either, aside from the 7/7 London thing which was as much homegrown as it was AQ directed
3. Abu Sayyaf in the Phillipines, Islamic terrorists in Indonesia and elsewhere have been devestated. The body of the leader of Abu Sayyaf was recently discovered
4. Zarqawi and his top leaders all dead
5. The ICU in Somalia is finished
6. The Taliban is largely done for, at least as far as affecting the US is concerned
7. All of the Arab regimes that AQ has dedicated themselves to toppling(KSA, Egypt, Jordan, Morrocco, the GCC states, are all stronger than ever and have totally resisted any attepts at AQ subversion
8. The WMD programs of Iraq and Lybia are no more
9. Bin Laden and Zawahiri have largely lost face to Nasrallah, who himself isn't exactly sitting pretty at the moment
10. The US buildup in the Gulf has continued unabated
If President Bush would emphasize the positive more, and get the message out to the people, he and the GO Pwould be in much better shape.
Hopefully we learn from the Ethiopian example that going in, not kowtowing ot the UN, the media and the left, and killing as many as possible until they surrender and leave, is the right thing to do.
This shows what can be accomplished when your troops are not hamstrung by political correctness.
It's kind of a pity that the Islamists didn't decide to stand and fight. Frankly, I was hoping to see Mogadishu pounded into rubble as a form of revenge-by-proxy for what happened there in 1993 - and as a way of enacting what should have happened there in 1993.