Analysis: Blinken had three tasks in hand on his Middle East visit - none went well By Dominic Waghorn, international affairs editor America's chief diplomat is engaged on a frantic bout of shuttle diplomacy across the Middle East with currently little to show for it. Antony Blinken has taken in Jerusalem, Ramallah, Amman, Baghdad and Ankara, but diplomatically speaking seems still to be on the road to nowhere. He has three tasks in hand - none of them going well. First, to persuade Israel to permit a lull in the fighting to let more aid in and hostages out -...