Unfortunately Amos the prize is so great that the politicians in the US at present are so interested in self-promotion and keeping clear of sensitive issues (This impeacment gambit is being used solely to keep a rank outsider's hopes alive and name on the Democrat ticket that would otherwise have slipped into obscurity months ago).

Get bogged down in this and it could well lose the Democrats the next Presidential election. The US currently has troops engaged abroad, you have a House of Representatives and Senate bickering about funding and attempting to impose conditions on those armed forces, or more correctly on their Commander-in-Chief, for purely political reasons. From abroad it looks bad, it demonstrates amazing weakness and an incredible lack of resolve.

The situation has got nothing to do with holes, its got to do with fighting an enemy who has attacked you - in that case you don't stop until you have won, or at least effectively discouraged them. For that you need national unity, purpose and leadership - not petty personal party politics.