"My view matches Zbigniew Brzezinski's that the combined storm of America's engagement in Iraq and Afghanistan, brewing problems with Iran, lack of meaningful success in Israel-Palestine peace, and regional disdain among Arab Muslims for the United States is the defining challenge for America. We need to turn that around and given the collapse in legitimacy America has experienced because of failure in Iraq, much more priority should be given to establishing a stable Israel-Palestine deal that produces two states and includes other regional deal-making including normalization of relations with Syria and a new set of economic and collective security arrangements with Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, and other regional players."
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/002196.php

Steve is a smart foreign policy thinker and this strikes me as an endorsement of a NEASFram type approach to the region - perhaps our framework is a little broader (includes Somalia for instance) but the broader points are the same.