White House: Geneva Accord May Be Useful

The White House ought to consider what its reaction would be to ex-President Clinton holding a meeting in Kabul with associates of Mullah Omar in order to negotiate a peaceful settlement to our standoff with the Taliban, and then also consider what it would think of Great Britain sending an official representative to this meeting. Seems pretty analogous to Powell attending this farce of a meeting with the authors of the Geneva accords.

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Describing the U.S.-backed road map as incomplete, Beilin said it contains Bush's vision of a Palestinian state but does not provide a detailed "endgame" for resolving the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.

Right, Yossi, Israel retreats to the 67/48 borders and then the palestinian’s decide what they want to do next. An endgame is a deal killer after all. And McClellan says other approaches could be useful? So much for all the nonsense his boss say’s about performance. But he’s right. If the PA is required to confront terror, the road map fails, so why not borrow a little from Geneva and eliminate the endgamr.

Of course, terrorists operating in Iraq don’t see a message here, that terror, applied consistently over a period of time, trumps speeches and road maps and good intentions every time.

Anyway, to make the approach useful, GWB may have to borrow a tactic from our hard left, to get a leftist government installed in Israel. Clinton sent James Carville, Stanley Greenberg and Robert Schrum to Israel to improve the chances of the far left, and successfully take Netanyahu out of the picture.

I suspect GWB may have to do the same thing, because beyond Sharon, Bibi is still lurking in the wings, and labors prospects are dismal.

I’m not sure if Carville would work for Bush, but Dick Morris would, he’s worked for Republicans in the past. He could take Clinton with him, since the odds of his making good on his promise to defend Israel in the trenches (fat chance) are increasing.

Then again, John Kerry has a similar plan in the works. The White House could adopt as their own.

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