President Bush has talked with British Prime Minister Tony Blair about taking a role as a Middle East peace envoy after he leaves office next week. Assistant Secretary of State David Welch, the State Department's top diplomat for the Middle East, talked with Blair in London on Wednesday, while the White House and State Department spoke glowingly about the prime minister's credentials but said there was nothing to announce yet.
We're coming up on the deadline for my speculation that President Bush and Prime Minister Blair had vowed to destroy the mullah regime in Iran before Blair leaves office.
So does this development mean that Bush has agreed to be the "bad cop" who takes down Iran while Blair is the "good cop" who settles the region after the guns fall silent and works on building up Iranian civic institutions after the fight and reintegrating Iran into the world?
And if it does mean this is the plan, does it mean that the deadline for action against Iran is still many months away instead of soon as it seems possible to me? This dot doesn't seem to quite fit the pattern I think I see.
But none of the dots I think I see may be connected in the first place. I freely confess I've been wrong before on this question.
UPDATE: The proposed position is related narrowly to the Palestinian issue. Who knows if this is even a dot.
