I’m not sure what the rationale is for the Bush administration to move towards positions advocated by Obama.
For example, Iran.
I’m not sure what talking to Iran with Bush will accomplish. Certainly the Iranians have moved into a “dormant” position because they feel they will be getting better treatment from a (supposedly) inevitable Obama administration.
If I had to guess why Bush is doing these things, I would say that it would be to say that hey, we tried it, it didn’t work. A stealing of ideas, similar to how Clinton did welfare reform to preempt the issue from the republicans. Maybe by trying these things, they can outmanuever Obama.
