Arlen Specter's Brilliant Foreign Policy Initiative

A beer summit with Israelis and Syrians.

At a Capitol Hill hearing on Wednesday, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) suggested that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad be invited to the White House for a meeting with President Barack Obama and the Israeli leadership. Specter also suggested that such a “nudge” might entice the Syrian dictator to return to peace negotiations with Israel.

Sure. Why not? Obama's arts of persuasian have worked so well with climate summits, Olympic committees and such