CLAUDIA ROSETT: “What matters at least as much as the killing of al-Qaeda top terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq is that we, in America, appreciate it for the important battlefield victory it truly is.”

Meanwhile, on another front in the war on Islamist violence:

The publishers of Indonesia’s version of Playboy magazine defied militant Islamists yesterday by producing their second issue. . . .

Playboy’s publishers said they were producing the magazine to defend democracy and freedom of expression against fear and intolerance.

An editorial called for “the absence of a monopoly set of values and views in our beloved country”.

And rightly so.