What is going on in the U.S. Senate right now, in terms of this non-binding resolution condemning President Bush’s move to reinforce U.S. troops in Iraq, is nothing less than shameful, as far as RWB is concerned. The measure will have no effect except that of giving hope and encouragement to the enemy, whose goal has never been to defeat the U.S. military in combat, but instead to inspire and to exploit divisions at home. It’s literally sickening to see a majority in the U.S. Senate lining up to give the enemy exactly what it wants. I don’t know how else to characterize it other than according to that reality.

It also comes at a critical time when success is being achieved and continuing momentum is vital. There’s an excellent analysis of the of the current backdrop by James Lewis in the American Thinker today:

While the MSM and Democrats are too busy gazing at their navels to figure out the difference between Sunnis and Shiites, things are moving very fast in Iraq. The famous “surge” started in December, a month before it was announced in public, and it is having concrete results. A battle has taken place in Baghdad’s infamous Haifa Street, which used to be bandit territory. The challenge is to hold that territory.

El Sadr’s Mahdi Army is offering a cease fire and negotiations for fear of an American-Iraq Army assault. The challenge is how to tie Muqtada el Sadr’s hands by a combination of political/economic incentives and the threat of total destruction if he goes back to the armed option. Al Qaida is said to have retreated from Baghdad tactically, and is reported reported to be fighting in isolation from Sunni and Shiite death squads. All this is good news; but the challenge is to hold, hold, hold. That is up to the Iraq Army, stiffened by American soldiers and political resolve.

The most significant new development is the arrest in Iraq of the operational director of Ahmadinejad’s storm trooper (Al Quds) brigade.

If the MSM were doing its job, this would be big headline news. First, the Al Quds brigade is Ahmadinejad’s own unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, which he helped grow in order to conduct terrorist operations abroad, in Lebanon, Israel, Iraq and even Mecca.

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