I was flipping through the XM channels during my drive this morning and landed on one of them playing U2’s “Beautiful Day.” There’re communists, but even so, I do tend to like most of their tunes. When something rapish followed up, I switched over to Fox News Radio in time to catch the “breaking report” that al-Zarqawi had been killed in Iraq overnight.

The score so far, for those listening at home:
• 1 international terrorist leader killed
• 2 countries liberated
• 1 nuclear weapons program surrendered
• 1 religious extremist government toppled and on the run
• 1 megalomaniac dictator captured and standing trial
• 2 despotic sons killed

Our soldiers and airmen proved once again that the United States has produced the best trained, best equipped, best fed, and most highly educated warriors in the long sweep of human history.

It’s a beautiful day indeed.