Remember what the Editors of the New York Times had to say yesterday about the Iraqi Prime Minister's failure to appoint Defense and Interior Ministers to his cabinet?

"Almost six months after Iraqis voted for their first full-term government, two of the most essential jobs in that government remain unfilled: the interior minister, who oversees the police, and the defense minister, who oversees the army. That would be a serious political crisis in any country. It is little short of calamitous for Iraq."

So now on the day following the appointments, does the Times consider the situation resolved?  Is there a great releif now that disaster has been averted?

"....it will take far more than the elimination of a handful of iconic leaders to stem the tide of the Iraqi insurgency and reverse the country's alarming slide into civil war....A modest step in that necessary direction was taken yesterday with the parliamentary confirmation of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki's remaining cabinet members."

When things go wrong it's a calamity.  When those same things are put right, it's a modest improvement.

Do I even need to mention that in today's editorial which focused on the death of Zarqawi there is not one word of congratulations for our military and intelligence services who had been working for years trying to hunt him down?  Even if you hate the President, give some credit to the guys on the ground.