Arm in arm?
Or maybe just too many women in the room all together.
It's not necessarily a bad thing, it could be regarded as a wake up call. A sensible approach is not to negotiate with or try to appease the rogue states.
The liberals have been longing for some sort of an appeasement approach with the 'axis'. The results are telling: public humiliation of the US officials. And this will never change.
The Arabic/ME culture is historically a culture of invaders/raiders; the willingness to negotiate is regarded as sign of weakness: why negotiate if you can take what you want by force?
Until we understand this (our ancestors in Medieval Europe did) we will never be able to prevail in any sort of a conflict in the East. You also have to walk the walk, talking is not enough and will be laughed at. The recent developments may actually help many Americans (always excluding the liberals, of course) to understand that there’s just no way you can negotiate with those guys.
This is exactly how one or two criminals manage to control large crowds: they have a sense of purpose; they know what they want and are prepared to take risks to get it. If you try to reason with them or submit, you will ultimately lose the minute you stop being useful to them. You could draw a parallel between the above and cattle: exactly the same thing, small number of humans controlling a herd. If we don’t want to be thought of and, consequently, treated as a herd, we’d better quickly acquire a sense of purpose and act as one force rather then lots of discordant and contradictory voices.