We do not want to lower the bar so much that others are encouraged to try to jump up and reach it particularly those who see nuclearweapons as a shortcut to global influence.
Particularly in light of Iran's nuclearweapons program and the Iranian regime's expressed goal of destroying Israel, the Bush administration preferred to scuttle the conference rather than give any credence to the view that Israel's purported nuclear arsenal is a greater threat to global security than Iran's nuclear program - which, as in today's draft, wasn't mentioned in Egypt's resolution five years ago.