President Pudding Cup is awakened from his nap, and told to look warrior-like. The usual lackeys eat it up.

After fleeing Afghanistan and leaving $80 billion in weaponry behind for its new terrorist rulers, Biden sought to restore his image by approving a special forces strike against an old, useless terrorist. Did it work? Well, his friends in the media say it did:

No one will miss al-Zawahri, and he certainly got what he’s long deserved, but, after a long career stretching back to the 1981 assassination of Anwar Sadat, the massacre of tourists in Luxor in 1997, the bombing of the Cole in 2000, and, of course, planning 9/11, the man has been largely irrelevant. Analysts quoted by the WSJ weren’t impressed by the man’s current dangerousness:

U.N. specialists and private analysts say the more immediate terror threat from Afghanistan is likely to come from the local branch of Islamic State, known as ISIS-K, which is itself at war with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers.

A U.N. Security Council report released last month said that al Qaeda is unlikely to launch attacks outside of Afghanistan because of its capabilities, and restraint by the Taliban. While al Qaeda is a significant long-term threat, ISIS-K “poses the greater threat in the short and medium term,” the report said.

Mr. Lister also said the al Qaeda leader didn’t pose an immediate threat beyond Afghanistan’s borders.

“Ayman al-Zawahiri was never going to be a critical plotter of terrorist attacks abroad,” he said. “He’s the overall grandfather figure.”

Al Qaeda will probably be saddened by Gand Pops’s overdue death, just as we will mourn when our own president shuffles off to join him in that great nursing home in the sky, but what had he been doing for them lately? This report says, “not much”:

In his later years, al-Zawahiri was rumored to be in bad health and would go long periods without being seen in public. 

He struggled to keep up with younger terrorist groups like ISIS and would occasionally release writings that one counterterrorism expert described to the outlet as “unbelievably boring.” 

So the result of this strike amounts to a brief PR flash, and nothing else. Except, of course, a reminder that the military Biden so despises and is working so hard to destroy still has a few teeth; more than the octogenarian who’s trying to take credit for their kill, in fact.