The secret cables that U.S. diplomats have been sending to Washington are no longer secret. WikiLeaks has opened the official script that the State Department follows in international relations.

The U.S. government is embarrassed and so are many world leaders, especially those from Arab countries. All that was happening behind the scenes between the United States and Arabs thus far has been exposed. Countries such as Pakistan, Russia, China, Turkey, Iraq, and others are both friends and foes of Washington. These countries are in partnership while simultaneously harboring animosity towards each other. Their conspiracies against one another have all been exposed.

Although the total number of exposed cables is in excess of a quarter million, each one of them is of huge interest. But those concerning Iran and Arabs are of particular significance. Cables about Arab-Iran relations proved previous assumptions about the hostilities between the two sides wrong – the level of hostility amongst them is much higher. WikiLeaks have exposed King Abdullah's desire that the United States bomb Iran's nuclear installations. Arab leaders, according to WikiLeaks, feel more threatened by Iran's growing military might than by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Israel seems pleased with these revelations that indicate Arabs are more alarmed by Iran's nuclear program than by Israel. This sentiment in the Arab countries brings them into league with the United States and Israel who believe that Iran's nuclear program must be wound down and its military power clipped.

The WikiLeaks revelations will further complicate the situation in the Middle East.  This will result in renewed international pressure for Hamas and Hizbullah, who target Israel from two sides of its border (from Gaza and Lebanon), to break their ties with Iran.

The WikiLeaks cache confirms anxiety in Washington and London about the security of Pakistan's nuclear assets as well. It's likely that the West will increase help to Pakistan to protect these assets even more.

The U.S. security apparatus is now in full swing with its search for those who leaked these national security documents. So far one man in the military has been arrested and we wait to see who else turns up; however, this may be of little significance given the damage to the U.S. interests caused by these revelations, which is so deep that it will take a very long time to redeploy U.S. diplomacy in its full strength and repair America's tarnished image overseas.