Wednesday, July 26, 2006

What is significant is Saudi public opinion. So Saudi clerics and "liberal reformers" have both broken with the regime and signed petitions against the House of Saud's position. And when you watch call-in shows on Arabic TV: many of the angry callers who blast Arab regimes are from Saudi Arabia. But don't tell Bush. He still thinks that House of Saud speaks for all Arabs, just as the Clean Break crowd thought that the Iraqi people are going to demand the Hashemites of Jordan to rule over them.