More on the most powerful Democrat in the nation

Here's Jeff Goldstein over at Protein Wisdom:

Worse, Reid is using precisely the calculus terrorists depend upon to formulate policy: successful terror attacks and deaths are proof that fighting terror can’t work. Meaning that all it takes for the US to turn tail and run is its military inability to prevent carefully staged terror attacks meant as spectacle to break US and Western morale.

And so long as that is the accepted calculus for our willingness to pursue a conflict to its conclusion, the US can never win another war - nor should it even try.

And here's Bill Kristol in Time:

Earlier this month, the "surge" was beginning visibly to work. Al Qaeda fought back, with massive slaughter of civilians, whose purpose was in part to undercut support for the war against al Qaeda on the home front. Harry Reid followed script.

Looks like we're going back to Fortress America.