America's position in the Mideast is probably going to grow much worse before it gets better. We are increasingly out of touch with all the Arab and Muslim governments in the region and even with all our key Western allies. We are on a slippery path towards a truly major foreign policy disaster, perhaps one of the biggest in American history. That previous sentence is a formal prediction, by the way, not loose talk or vague speculation. I am happy to put it on the public record.
Common sense is a wonderful tool.