At least the Egyptian government knows what's up

Following his meetings with top Egyptian officials, Jason Isaacson, the American Jewish Commitee's Director of International Affairs, came away thinking:

They are concerned that Iran, which already presents a threat to the region because it foments extremism and subsidizes terrorism, will only be a more potent threat if it gets nuclear capabilities.

Um... yeah. And Isaacson continued:

We heard a remarkable similarity between Egyptian and Israeli strategic concerns about Iran. We heard their concerns about Iran's political influence, its promotion of extremism and aggressiveness that I hadn't heard before. They laid out a case against Iran similar to what is heard in Jerusalem and Washington.

It should come to no surprise that Cairo, Jerusalem, and Washington are all threatened by a nuclear Iran. The challenge for Egypt, however, is that unlike Israel and the United States, it cannot articulate this opinion to its people. Appeasing Iran or upseting the Egyptian street -- neither option is attractive.

Unfortunately, the Arab Street has bought wily Ahmedinejad's bait. By stepping up the anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and anti-American rhetoric, he has become their hero, thereby rendering Arab opposition impotent. And with the Europeans being blind to Iranian ambitions, the Russians and Chinese being in bed with the Iranians, the United States being tied down in Iraq, and the UN being the UN, the outlook does not look promising...