Senator Joe Biden (Democrat-DE) lays out his five point plan for Iraq in today's Washington Post, and in doing so makes a good point: The President's plan is incompetent and making matters worse by the day, but the support for immediate withrawal is just as bad. Biden's plans are bold and well thought out; the work of a true statesman. And to those who poo-poo it, he asks one question: What is your alternative?
Most progressives can't come up with one. And that's why I'm seriously hoping Biden enters the 2008 presidential contest. We'll need a respected FDR/JFK intelligent tough guy who will draw votes from independents and moderate Republicans who want Iraq solved before we pull out (and again, the President isn't solving things but rather making them worse).
Biden/Richardson, anyone?
