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"slams nations 'that do not want success in these efforts' "

She gets it, but do others?

Just like Iraq is having trouble because of Iran and Syria, so is the whole Israeli Palestinian issue. Besides the obvious antagonists Iran and Syria you then have the enablers. Those who bottom feed and profiteer off of the situation and make it worse, such as Russia. For them an isolated Iran means an exclusive market for their goods, to include weapons. Finally you have the political opportunists who simply stand in opposition but have little to gain in economic terms such as China. China has few vested economic interests in this region and they are not threatened by the instability there. However, they do get some of their fossil fuels from this region and more importantly they see the US as their long term adversary. Anything that weakens our position is good for them, so they will always oppose us in the UN, make public statements in their state run media which is parroted in part even in the US..... It's hard to achieve peace when you have people on the outside doing all they can to prevent it.

Exactly. The current state of the "international security" is weak, I´d say. We have - as you said - countries that actively oppose the West, and do everything they can to destroy us, such as Syria and Iran, and there are others, who don´t support the defeat of the West, but wants to get stronger on our costs, such as China and Russia. The purpose of Mrs. Merkel´s trip was, to get the neutral Arab states on our side. She wanted to show them that we´re on the side of peace, and not necessarily against them. If we lose countries like Egypt, Saudi-Arabia, Kuwait or the UAE to the other side, we´re completely lost. Now when will Iran & Syria see that they can achieve prosperity with us and not against us? I guess they don´t seek prosperity. They seek to achieve their political goals, such as the destruction of Israel and the "Satan".