Foreign Confidential ™

So much for Obama's appeasement and "Muslim world" outreach. Turns out, as China Confidential and other analysts have suggested, there is still an Arab world, and it is scared stiff by the prospect of a nuclear-armed imperialist Iranian regime--a monstrous mullahocracy that is openly dedicated to overthrowing the entire world order (in concert with its ironically atheist, Stalinist/Kimist partner in proliferation, North Korea, Islamist proxies Hamas and Hezbollah, and Communistic South American ally, Hugo Chavez).

Click here to read about the actual Arab position, which vindicates Israel.

The disclosures should also bury the topsy-turvy linkage argument that a peace pact between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (and Hamas also, according to Israel-bashers like Jimmy Carter) must precede serious action on Iran. The opposite is true: the road to peace in the Middle East runs through Iran, alright; but the Islamist regime must first be removed in order to reach the desired destination. Ending the Iranian threat--really ending it--means the end of Hamas and Hezbollah, which makes all good things possible in the region.

Finally, the massive document dump also puts to rest the rumor that President Obama is a Saudi puppet or plant. In spite of his appalling bow to the country's monarch, Obama has behaved more like a tool of powerful political and economic elites that seek to use and manipulate radical Islam (except for Al Qaeda and so-called irreconcilable elements of the Taliban). More than nine years after the horrific blowback of 9/11, this gang of geo-strategic geniuses, led by former Carter Administration National Security Advisor Zbignew Brzezinski (architect of America's betrayal of Iran's Shah and secret intervention in Afghanistan on the side of jihadists) still believes that it is possible to ride the Islamist tiger without being eaten by it.

Which largely explains Obama's historic address to the Muslim world (an inherently Islamist concept) instead of to the Arab world, his embrace of non-Arab Turkey's, pro-Iran, Islamist government ... and his policy of appeasing ... and attempting to actually align with ... the missile-mad mullahs in Iran ... in a Great Game-like Grand Bargain aimed at pacifying Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The bottom line: when it comes to the all-important Iran issue, the Gulf states and Egypt and Jordan are surprisingly in sync with Israel and could care less about the views of Indonesia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Turkey ... and the editorial boards of The New York Times and The Washington Post.

POSTSCRIPT: Perhaps Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah or one of his aides is a secret admirer of China Confidential. We have readers in Riyadh; and a year ago, yesterday, analyst Arnis R. Putrenieks used the "cut off the head of the snake" phrase in the Iran nuclear context--specifically, a prescient piece proposing an "internal strike," using computer software and other surgical means, to neutralize suspect sites. This reporter has also referred to the Iranian regime as a venomous snake, arguing that any military action must result in killing and not merely wounding the menacing foe--i.e. wiping out the regime's war-making and retaliatory capabilities and ending the regime itself.