We fail to see the earth-shattering revelation here (see below).

Yes, it's an "open secret" that Arab countries of the Middle East fear a nuclear Iran as much, and possibly more than Israel does. But the fact that a UAE ambassador tells the truth about it, hardly deserves blaring trumpets, much less an editorial in the WSJ. Especially since the UAE and the rest of the Arab world are looking to the U.S. and/or Israel to do the dirty work for them! (Note the Ambassador's moment of truth, in English, and for the benefit of an American audience).

Saying one thing and meaning another is not unusual in the Arab world, in fact, it's a cultural prescription. Yet we've become so desensitized to lies and deception from that part of the world, that when a kernel of truth emerges (intentionally or not), it merits an editorial in the Wall Street Journal. To borrow a term coined by the late NY Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, when it comes to the Arab world, we, Americans, continue to define deviancy down.