ZARQAWI’S OATH: The Belmont Club observes:

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s oath to fight “until Islamic rule is back on earth” — besides being historically wrong, as it never was — and his vow to kill the Shi’ite President of the interim Iraqi government, can be more accurately understood as a desire to fight for leadership of the Sunni triangle. The control of Iraq has slipped forever beyond his grasp. Iraqi blogger Hammorabi’s breakdown of the the foreign fighters killed in one US strike on Fallujah underscores the point.

Read the whole thing, and especially the concluding paragraph.