This meeting is, above all, a reflection of the profound disappointment across the Gulf with Washington and with U.S. policy in the region. No Gulf government has any illusions about the nature of the Iranian regime. They know exactly who they are dealing with. But their choice today is not between Iran and the United States. It is between an open-ended confrontation with no clear political endgame, one that is destabilizing the region and inflicting enormous economic costs, and an accommodatio