Biden on Diplomacy in the Middle East

If you want to see why many of us see Joe Biden as a potentially formidable Democratic contender for the 2008 nomination, this op-ed piece in today's Boston Globe provides at leasta glimpse. He advocates diplomacy in the Middle East while still casting the balms firmly where it belongs, on Hezbollah, and gives an indication of what such a solution, bolstered by troops, might look like. One can quibble with the mechanics, but no one can doubt that Biden knows what he is talking about.

I'm not certain Biden can win the nomination. Between fund-raising, a skeptical left-wing of the party, and some of the issues that Chris Cilizza discusses (see also my post below), Biden has an uphill climb, but he is one of my top four choices right now and were he to be able to wrest the party's nomination he would make for a strong national candidate.