No, I’m not going to attack anybody else in this posting, only myself. This morning, I read my old friend David Brooks’s column on Iraq in the actual newspaper before I found out about Zarkawi’s killing and the appointment of the final ministers in Iraq’s cabinet. David’s column is a very somber, very downbeat, very depressed reading of the situation — uncharacteristically downbeat for him. (I can’t link to it because it’s a New York Times column and behind a paid wall.) So when I logged on and discovered the fantastic news, my first thought was not, I’m afraid, about how this might mark a turning point in the war. It was sympathy for a fellow newspaper columnist. “Oooh,” I thought. “Bad timing for David.”