What's wrong with these two paragraphs?

Reader Stuart Pomerantz on this Guardian editorial.

Ostensibly about Iran's nuclear ambitions, the Guardian writer subtly suggests that it's not Iran's intransigence that's the problem here.

This explosive issue has been kept under control for two years as Britain, France and Germany, representing the EU, have adopted a carefully calibrated carrot-and-stick approach. They learned the hard way in Iraq that having no policy allows the US to go it alone, so the Europeans have bent over backwards in the face of suspicion and hostility from Washington to ensure diplomacy works.

Stuart:

The self-delusion inherent in the first sentence is belied by the second sentence, in spite of the "America, the brutish unilateralist" sentiment expressed therein (which proves appropriate for dealing with people intent on deceiving).

The Guardian:

Now though, with Iran's hawks in the ascendant, a crisis is looming. Appeals by the International Atomic Energy Agency - the UN's nuclear watchdog - have fallen on deaf ears in Tehran, where the authorities insisted again yesterday that they will unilaterally resume the uranium ore conversion they suspended when talks began last year. That would pre-empt delivery of a long-awaited package of EU incentives being unveiled this weekend. The coming days will tell whether this is brinkmanship or an end to negotiations. The stakes are high - though cool nerves are in order, especially given the dismal state of intelligence about Iraqi WMD. The latest US estimate is that Iran is a decade away from making a bomb, very different from what may be a self-serving Israeli view that it is already far closer to that goal.

Stuart:

Gotta throw in a little Israel-bashing - the world would be at peace if not for that shitty little country who has used their nuclear power so irresponsibly over the past 40 years.