I'm still trying to figure some of our President's most recent gambits, like Powell's mission. Maybe the real point was to purposefully drag our feet, letting Powell be "humiliated" by waiting-- while of course for every minute he waited another Arab terrorist bit the schnitzel. I think the real point was, "you're either with us or against us," and we're letting the Israelis illustrate for the Arabs how those against us are going to be treated in the wider Middle East in the near future.
At least I hope so.
Don't be silly. The masochists of the state dept., infect everyone around them with shades of their unholy desires. The president was inoculated by 911, but now that appears to be wearing off, and reinfection has set in.