You're right, powerclown, I sound a bit negative and should adopt a "wait and see" attitude. The cooperation between the two countries will certainly help economically for both, and less hostility is always a good thing in my book.
The down side is the increasing nervousness of Turkey and Saudi Arabia, not to mention Pakistan. It is a great opportunity for the U.S. to exhibit some good faith effort in that part of the world if democracy is in fact all we want. As a country, we always seem to find a way to
screw things up over there...