The capture of Saddam Hussein is being greeted with near universal satisfaction in the international online media. For some in the English-speaking world, it is a vindication of President Bush's foreign policy, sending a signal of American strength to dictators and terrorists. For more observers in the Arab world, it offers the United States a chance to salvage its failing occupation of Iraq.
Few doubt the Iraqi insurgency will go away. But even fewer doubt that, in the words of The Guardian in London, for President Bush, "Christmas came early."
"Axis of evil dictators should know this is the end point of the defiance of US power," declare the editors of The Australian, a national daily newspaper launched in 1964 by an aspiring businessman
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