With all due respect, Mr. Prez, I disagree. The credibility of the US in the region is shot, and I think we need to prove to them we are fully engaged and committed before yet another summit will accomplish anything. The PR campaign will help, but I think we need to focus on a single hot-spot issue and resolve it first -- or rather, be the leadership that achieves an international solution.

It doesn't need to be a complete solution, either. Just stabalizing the standoff between Israel and Palestine back to glares and dirty gestures instead of bombs would be an enormous success. A lasting solution can be part of the Summit. Or maybe we can shift some of those US troops around to less religiously-sensitive areas.

But if the US called for a Summit tomorrow, everyone would assume that the US was making a bid to seize more control over the energy reserves in the area, or oust some leader, or some other selfish motive.