With the defeat of his ideologically inspired foreign policy, Bush has finally decided not to remain blind to the benefits of engaging Syria and Iran. However isolated within the Arab family the Syrians may be, and however embattled their Iranian allies are, the two countries hold the keys to Middle East stability.
随着其受意识形态驱使的外交政策的失败，布什最终决定不对与叙利亚和伊朗交往的好处视而不见了。不管叙利亚可能在阿拉伯世界中是多么地孤立，不管其同盟伊朗遭受着多么严重地围困，这两个国家都在维护中东稳定中起重要的作用。它们在黎巴嫩是有重要影响力的国家，它们在安抚伊拉克中可以起作用，它们能影响势力强大并且是重大不稳定因素的非国家组织——例如哈马斯和真主党——的态度，并且，它们对哈马斯的影响力对维护稳定的巴勒斯坦前线至关重要。而且，与伊朗交往也是避免该地区的核灾难的唯一途径。