IDIOT'S DELIGHT – AT 8:04 P.M. ET:  Anyone with even minimal experience in foreign affairs knows that Obama's soft line toward Iran and hard line toward Israel would have predictable results.  Those results have started to appear:

Arab states should prepare for the possibility that the Palestinian-Israeli peace process may be a total failure and prepare alternatives, Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa said on Saturday.

Translated:  We can get out of this peace business and blame Israel.  Obama will support us.

"We have to study the possibility that the peace process will be a complete failure," Moussa told a summit of Arab leaders in the Libyan town of Sirte.

"It's time to face Israel. We have to have alternative plans because the situation has reached a turning-point," he said.

Translated:  Obama is more Palestinian than the Palestinians.  Can we be less?

Mousa did not specify the alternatives - but one option could be for the Palestinians to bypass the peace process and declare a state unilaterally.

Right.  Who needs a peace process when we can get what we want without it?  And now for the even more ominous part:

He also said the Arab League should open a dialogue with Tehran to address concerns, especially among Iran's neighbors across the Gulf, about its nuclear program.

Translated:  Obama is weak.  He's getting nowhere with Iran.  We're not protected.  Maybe we'd better cozy up to the mullahs.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the summit said indirect negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians cannot continue unless Israel stops building in the settlements.

"We cannot resume indirect negotiations as long as Israel maintains its settlement policy and the status quo," Abbas said at the opening session of the two-day summit.

This had never been Palestinian policy before Barack Hussein Obama Jr. came to office.  He's messed up the entire thing and weakened, not strengthened, our position in the Mideast.  And the Arabs, natural enemies of the Iranians, whom they fear, may knife us on Iran if Obama can't get the Iranians to end their nuclear program. 

When you learn your international diplomacy as a community organizer in Chicago, this is what happens.

March 27, 2010