Saudi-American intervention

Just as Jeffrey Feltman felt the need to threaten and intimidate the Lebanese people two days before the election in a rushed interview with Al-Hayat when he said that it would be "naive" if the Lebanese did not think that they would be punished if they voted incorrectly, Saudi Arabia did something similar just last week. One of the Saudi tools in Lebanon, MP Misbah Al-Ahdab (who supports secular democracy when he speaks to Western reporters in English or French and who supports Salafi groups in Arabic in Tripoli), last week made it clear to the Lebanese people that the Lebanese state would not receive Saudi aid if the Lebanese people were to vote incorrectly. Long live free elections in the age of American-Saudi intervention. I mean, Obama praised Saudi Arabia in the section of his Cairo speech that dealt with religious freedosms, and I would not be surprised if his next speech contained praise for Sauid Arabia for its "support" of elections in the Middle East. Oh, yeah. Why not?