The Daily Star - Opinion Articles - US diplomatic sway in the Arab world is on the wane

...America isn't withdrawing from the Middle East, despite its recent difficulties - that's an Iranian fantasy. And in the long run, it's surely to America's advantage if regional powers can create a stable security architecture - even if it isn't precisely the one we would have designed for them. We've tried imposing our own solutions, and frankly that hasn't worked very well.