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More than 2,000 terrorists held the city of Fallujah under their grip for more than a year, using the place as a staging ground for kidnappings, beheadings, attacks on U.S. troops and the general torment of the Iraqi people.

In less than a week, the United States Marine Corps routed bin Laden's finest - handing them their worst defeat since Kabul. In the words of Richard Crenna in First Blood: "It's over, Johnny."

There will still be fighting, skirmishing and, unfortunately, bloodshed. But for the terrorists in Iraq, this is the beginning of the end. Elections and democracy will happen in January.

And it looks like bad guys in other parts of the world are hearing the music and getting the message.

MORE: Rodney Dill at James Joyner's site points to information which, he says, shows "the attack on Fallujah was justified." But some people just seem to want to side with the terrorists.

Brogonzo points to Fallujah as "another quagmire that wasn't." In this letter home by a Marine to his family, before the liberation of Fallujah began, we read: "Once again, we are being asked by citizens who have fled the city to go in and take the city back. They are willing for us to literally rubble the place in order to kill the terrorists within." They did.

And Belmont Club puts it all into strategic perspective.