Could Hillary ( and, by inference, Obama )have ...lied? (about Arabs,Israel & Iran)

A Method to Obama's Madness?http://tinyurl.com/dls9ae
The administration courts Iran, and Arabs suddenly sound reasonable.By JAMES TARANTO
...Gates, defense secretary of the Great Satan, "said Tuesday...Ahmadinejad's response to the US outreach has been 'not very encouraging,' "...Well, there's a shocker... elsewhere in the region, the AP reports, the Obama administration's efforts to make nice with Tehran's lunatic regime do seem to be having an effect, sending "ripples of alarm through the capitals of America's closest Arab allies,...
concerns being raised by Arab leaders sound ...like those coming from... Israeli officials."We hope that any dialogue between countries will not come at our expense," said a statement Tuesday by the six oil-rich nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council, who have long relied on US protection in the region. . . .
The London-based Palestinian daily, Al-Quds Al-Arabi even said the Arab moderates governments were actively working on building an alliance with Israel to counter Iranian influence in the region.The Wednesday report, citing Palestinian officials, said Egyptian and Jordanian diplomats were working to amend the 2002 Arab peace initiative to make it more acceptable to Israel.
..Commentary's Jennifer Rubin sees this as evidence of Washington's fecklessness:
...maybe they should listen to the emerging consensus in the Middle East. The problem, everyone seems to agree, is not Israel but Iran....Rubin may well be right; certainly this column shares her concern about the administration's get-soft policy on Tehran. ...the reported Arab discomfort is a benefit of the policy.The notion that Israel is the obstacle to peace in the Middle East is either malicious or fatuous; the problem always has been Arab intransigence. The U.S. is, in effect, threatening to betray its allies, Israeli and Arab, by making a deal with Iran....if the threat worries Arab regimes enough to force them to be reasonable vis-à-vis Israel, that would seem to be a boon for everyone except the Iranian regime.
Does this mean there's a method to Obama's madness? Probably not. Occam's razor points to incompetence and naiveté as a more likely explanation than benign Machiavellianism. But sometimes bad policies have unintended good consequences.