Without exaggeration, and at the risk of sounding conspiratorial, all the Saudi media now read as if they are being edited by officials at the Pentagon. Al-Hayat ran a fluff piece the other day about life on a US aircraft carrier. Today I read this headline (of a news story) in Al-Hayat: "Partisans of the former regime are still strong, and they had to be hit." This was not an editoral, mind you.