Reality is in short supply.

Diplomacy is now and always has been based on convenient fictions. It is currently convenient politically and economically, since the Arabs have oil, I mean really, would anyone give a damn what they said if they didn’t, to pretend that the emperor has no clothes.

This will obtain until we get off of oil.

There is no other way. If we want real peace in the middle east we have to develop alternative energy sources.