it's just another nonbinding resolution. Second, the author is Howard Berman, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, who is largely there for his uncritical support of Israel. (Witness his eagerness to impose "crippling sanctions" on Iran as soon as possible.)

On that list of 29 co-sponsors. Ackerman, Carnahan, Cohen, Engel, Fortenberry, Slaughter and Tauscher, I check on from time to time to see what kind of trouble they try to cobble up. Not many of them are all that productive that I need to worry overmuch.

Put this on a par with many congressional resolutions: "Recognizing the importance and service of the Boy Scouts of America." And you've some idea of its importance.

"It Can't Be Just About Us"
--Frank Schnittger, ETian Extraordinaire