Sullivan's comment today

Lots of news and comment out there about the Hussein capture. Here is one that had some perspective. Excerpts:

It is not for us to understand fully what these people were put through. At a moment like this, when we can see fully and clearly the evil that existed for so long - evil that we in the past did our part to maintain - it is important simply to recall the dead and their loved ones. Think of every moment when some poor soul believed he was about to die, every moment spent in hellish prisons, every person tortured beyond imagining, every child dumped in a mass grave, every person of faith treated as an enemy of the state. To watch the perpetrator of this extraordinary evil brought low - into a rat-hole in the ground - is a privilege. It happens rarely. It is a moment when some kind of cosmic justice breaks through the clouds, and all the petty wrangling and mistakes and political jockeying fall away in the face of liberation from inescapable fear and terror and brutality. It was a day of joy. Nothing remains to be said right now. Joy.

Indeed.

Hopefully, there will be more days down the road that will mark the return of normalcy to the Iraqi people. This is probably the third moment. The first was the night the air attacks began. The second was the day the big Hussein statue in Baghdad was brought down. This would be the third moment.

I suppose another moment will be the public trial of Hussein by the Iraqi people and probable execution. Another will be when an Iraqi elected government takes office. And finally, when normalcy is truly there: the time when Iraqi won't be news and people go to Iraq as tourists and a proud people can show off their nation to the rest of the world.