Paul Wilczynski's Observations

Trey Ellis on a Democratic Agenda

Trey Ellis comments on reports that Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats will unveil this fall a broad, inspiring Democratic agenda for midterm candidates to run on. Thank goodness someone is taking that need seriously!

On the trickiest question - Iraq - here's what Ellis suggests:

What I would humbly suggest is that we pull out our Ace in the Hole – Bill Clinton. In the platform we should urge the current President to appoint the former President as his special envoy to the Middle East. His tireless work for a Middle-East peace gives him impeccable street cred in the region when the rest of the U.S. government has none. Bill could sit down with the regional players, the Arab League and the U.N. and hammer out an accord where pan-Arab troops would help Iraqis police their streets and train Iraqi troops – Sunnis in Sunni regions, Shiites in Shiite regions. We would still provide an overall umbrella of protection but we would become less of a lightning rod for the insurgents. A stable, peace-loving pan-Arab Iraq is in the best interest of everyone in the region and a pan-Arab solution would bring a face-saving pride to the regional players, allow us to strategically disengage and prove to the world that we have no long-term colonial designs on the region either for oil or for Western-styled secularism.

posted by Paul Wilczynski @ 8:47 AM