If you've got rats and rattlesnakes coming through your front door, you close the damned front door until you can figure out where they are coming from and why.
This need to be seen as "tolerant" is driving many otherwise sensible people to say some profoundly stupid things.
Well, if that is really what is driving the stupidity. It is also possible these pseudo-leaders are freaking out at the potential loss of under-the-table cash from the Saudis if they can't keep the front door open.
It is an inconvenient truth that Saudi money infects almost all of DC.
We are going to have deal with them sooner or later.
Someone on FR this weekend said that we can no longer be the Janissaries for the Saudis--I thought that was a brilliant observation.
For the last 25 years we have been their mercenaries.