This article by Gregory Levey titled: "Why Obama should make George W. Bush his Mideast envoy."
Rationale: Right-wing Israelis love GW Bush, so he's a natural choice. And why shouldn't they? He let them do whatever they wanted, and gave them $3 billion a year on top of that. Do you think that Levey knows there are also Arabs and Persians in the Middle East?
If Mr Bush was to be given that job, it would set back the efforts for peace in the Middle East and Afghanistan/Pakistan for years. He isn't perceived as a diplomat- to put it mildly. Like his pal, Mr Blair, he has no hope of shaking off the reasons (some still deliberately obscured by relevant departments in each of these gentleman's former places in government) for going to war. Mr Bush's perception to the world has rapidly become out of date, if this article from Newsweek is a sample of Mr Bush's personal ambitions. Even for those who may agree to the continuation and support of Israel's Occupation, and the "strategy" of the Afghan war, Mr Bush has had his day. So has Mr Blair. Best stick to the Lecture Circuit.
Posted by: Ray | 30 July 2009 at 06:30 AM