[Robert DeLong]

The alternative is to allow the even more radical of the Middle East gain control. I think the best choice is to turn the sand to glass.

[grania]

How is anyone worse than Saudi Arabia? They weren't curtailed from wielding power over us after 911. In spite of all the rhetoric, it's been the Sounds of Silence lately about the atrocity in the Embassy.

Wouldn't we be better off if we had just left Syria, Iraq, Libya, and Iraq alone? How are we better off favoring Saudi Arabia than favoring the strongarm dictators who ran those countries?