President Bush and his two step.

People keep talking about how President Bush is moving toward where Sen. Barack Obama is. Iraq and Iran specifically. Lets get a few things clear here. President Bush is going to try talking with Iran on very small levels and as some see this as him moving toward Obama he is simply doing this to show that yet again, talking with Iran isn't going to work (from Bush and his supporters view that is). Now one could argue that President Bush and previous presidents before him have never tried hard enough, which may or may not be true, but it shouldn't be ignored that Iran has never backed down or given in on anything. They have tremendous influence through out the entire Middle East; they have proxies in every Middle Eastern country. The only thing that differs from country to country is how much influence Iran's proxies have.

One thing that seems to be getting missed is that the president of Turkey in a couple interviews has said that the enite Middle East is looking to go nuclear; to have nuclear power. Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Jordan, Syria, and Egypt all have or will have nuclear power. The United States has even now struck a deal with India to help with nuclear power. When we allow all of these countries to have nuclear power it makes it that much harder to tell Iran no; arguably impossible.

On Iraq, the key reason President Bush has said he'd agree to a time horizon is because the Iraqi's are asking for one. He can't afford a hit to his legacy by not getting a deal done with Iraq; he can't afford for the deal to be struck by this countries next president. Conditions on the ground have also allowed for the idea of an end result.