Missing from the MSM

I don't know if anyone else was aware of this progress the newly formed Iraqi government has made. If I had heard about this, it sure didn't register in my tiny little brain.

Eye of the Storm: Iraqis won't run Tidbits:

BY LAST week, 22 Arab Sunni armed groups had agreed to join the process initiated by al-Maliki. According to Akram al-Hakim, the minister in charge of national dialogue, the groups that have come on board account for a majority of those who have been fighting in the four Sunni provinces since the autumn of 2003. At the same time a group of 18 senior officers of the former regime's army have met with President Jalal Talabani to seek ways of bringing hundreds of Arab Sunni cashiered officers and NCOs into the new Iraqi army and police.

This should drive the cut and run crowd nuts:

The process will succeed only if the insurgents realize, as they are beginning to, that they have no prospect of winning.

And:

LAST WEEK the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), a grouping of 57 Muslim majority countries, ended its boycott of new Iraq by reopening its offices in Baghdad.

A little more:

Al-Maliki's message to the Arabs last week was simple: Our allies are not running away, and we are here to stay! There are signs that this message is beginning to be heard across the Arab region.

(emphasis added)