AUSTIN BAY WRITES THAT ZARQAWI HAS BEEN SUCKERED:

Z-Man’s been suckered. Z-Man is the troops’ nickname for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al Qaeda’s jefe in Iraq. Z-MAN has declared a “fierce war” on democracy. Z’s taken Bush’s bait– except the Presiden’ts “bait” of promoting democracy and declaring war on tyranny and 0ppression isn’t mere bait, it’s essential American values. The ideological dimensions of the War on Terror (The Millennium War) were there from the get-go, but the Presiden’t inaugural address has focused them. That’s a huge step, I think, to obtaining the kind of resilient victory and secure peace the American people deserve. . . .

Yup– a week before the Iraqi election Zarqawi has come out in public for imperialism, in his case Islamo-fascist imperialism.

Read the whole thing. It’s like somebody planned it or something.

UPDATE: Zarqawi isn’t getting much geek-respect, either, as a reader emails: “Someone should tell that Zarqawi guy that until he puts his tapes up as podcasts, we aren’t listening.”