Every single US foreign policy foray into the Palestine-Israel quagmire has ended in dismal failure and broken hopes and promises. It was Norway that raised the first realistic hopes, later dashed once the US hijacked the play, assuming the role of director, producer and star. As for Iraq, the US and others in the West helped to create a Frankenstein monster and ended up having to tame it. To be fair, the US has achieved some noteworthy diplomatic successes over the years in the region. But, overall, the carrot and stick approach has not worked in the Arab world.
Arab blood runs thicker than ideological affinities or tactical alliances or local feuds.
This has been demonstrated in the case of Iraq, with Saudi Arabia, Syria and other Arab states declining to lend support to what they see as unilateral US military action against Saddam. Disputes among Arabs are traditionally settled on the basis of time-honoured mechanisms, not all of them savoury. The pan-Islamic spirit is alive and well, despite theological and historical differences. It should be remembered that the struggle for the redress of grievances in the name of religion is not confined to Islam. So what's to be done.