"above reproach"? You mean the guy they wrote as an inarticulate idiot?
And the whole point was to certify that in fact, the people who complained about detention without trial were pussies who just made everything worse; if they'd just gone along and obeyed like they should have, there wouldn't be any need for it and they merely extended it by fighting.
Millar's very clear about this in interviews, you know; it's not just my interpretation (though I read it correctly even before I read the interviews.) To him, Tony Stark was the hero, and he only threw in things like zombie Thor because he felt it was so obvious that Tony was the hero that he had to do *something* to give it a little tension. And the end of the book is a paean to that: he quite literally has the *heroes of 9/11* attack Captain America to save Tony and put their stamp of righteousness on him. With Captain America crying and giving up and Tony Stark accepting the accolades of the world (and being a smirking triumphalist, because that's what Millar loves.)