With the announcement of Al-Zarqawi's death, only hours behind us, the question of whether-or-not his death will be over-hyped and under-analyzed has already arisen on many blogs and news websites.  Here's my two cents on it.

While I'll personally rejoice in his absence from existence, I think we would be disillusioned to think that his death is going to have anything but a short lived since of accomplishment before other terrorists, not-unlike Al-Zarqawi will eventually show their twisted little heads.

Sure, others will hail him as a martyr, but that makes him no different than any other bomb toting terrorist scum that has ever destroyed the lives of innocents. They too are remembered by their own people as martyrs. 

Eventhough, the hype over his death will sell papers and clog the airwaves, his importance to the fight against terrorism is only a symbolic one. And one that is only symbolic to us, at that.