Do you think the ever-fawning press isn't going along with him? If there is a big policy statement by Bush and a dumb-a$$ed self-serving speech by Clinton at E. Timor, who do you think the press will flock to? It would have been better to let the press know every time Clinton wants a job and let the press know that the Bush Admin. won't let him have a job because Clinton is immaterial and worthless. That's what Bush should have done. Not turn Clinton into an ambassador (that's the way the fawning press will spin it.)
As immaterial as East Timor is to the situation at hand right now, I think that sending x42 there is EXACTLY what Bush is saying. To me it goes under the heading of "keep you friends close, and your enemies closer"!