Not all other nations of the world can be lumped into one big category called "other nations of the world"

Lee Smith at the Weekly Standard on the irony of a group of those nations whose interests most closely align with those of the United States with regard to a search for mideast stability - Israel, Saudi Arabia, France - being a separate party from the Iran-US intent to keep meeting and playing patty-cake.

Allies, after all, are not simply products of power; they are also its signature. The United States owes much of its might to the nature and number of its alliances. Obama seems not to understand that if you really believe in a multi-polar world, if you treat your allies like anyone else, if you treat them the way you do your adversaries, then they may make different choices. He seems not to see that in forging a realignment of the region, it is the United States that is most likely to be realigned, friendless, doubted, and diminished.