(Washington Post) Charles Krauthammer - There is a collapse of confidence of U.S. allies in the Middle East as America romances Iran. In the nuclear negotiations with Iran, the U.S. has overthrown seven years of Security Council resolutions prohibiting uranium enrichment and effectively recognized Iran as a threshold nuclear state. This follows our near-abandonment of the Syrian revolution and de facto recognition of both the Assad regime and Iran's "Shiite Crescent" of client states stretching to the Mediterranean. The Israelis are now trapped by an agreement designed less to stop the Iranian nuclear program than to prevent the Israeli Air Force from stopping the Iranian nuclear program. Neither Arab nor Israeli can quite fathom a strategic condominium with a regime that defines its very purpose as overthrowing American power and expelling it from the region. Better diplomacy than war, say some, a response implying that all diplomacy is the same, as if a diplomacy of capitulation is no different from a diplomacy of pressure.
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