After more than six years of failed policy on the Israeli-Palestine issue, the Bush Administration is proposing to anoint soon-to-be ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair as a special envoy to the Middle East to help Fatah's Palestine president Mahmoud Abbas "build the institutions and apparatus fro a viable state." ("U.S. Is Urging Blair to Be Lead Mideast Envoy" by Helene Cooper, NY Times, June 21, 2007)
Too little, too late.
Actually, it's the kiss of death.
The Taliban are attacking Kabul in Afghanistan. Hamas has driven Fatah out of Gaza and the Israeli's are attacking Hamas. Lebanon is teetering on the abyss of further violence in and around the Palestinian refugee camps. The violence in Iraq is spreading outside Baghdad in response to our "squeeze the water balloon" aka "whack-a-mole" surge.
And we are going to appoint Tony Blair as a white knight to ride to our rescue?
Connie Rice, you are kidding me, aren't you?
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