This is hilarious: read the last line. Obama wants to balance democracy with...Saudi Arabia--Saudi Arabia, for potato's sake

"A top White House aide delivered a personal letter from President Obama to Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah on Tuesday, as the administration moved to calm tensions between the two countries over how to respond to upheaval in the Arab world and deal with their mutual adversary in Iran.  The hastily arranged visit to the kingdom by national security adviser Thomas E. Donilon came less than a week after Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates made the same trip. While administration officials confirmed the delivery of Obama’s missive, they declined to specify its contents.  Neither government denies that there has been a divergence of views between the entrenched, conservative monarchy and the administration, which is struggling to balance its substantial interests and alliances in the region with its desire to see democratic reforms."  I mean, that last sentence is classic.  This is like saying that some one wants to balance celibacy with sex, or to balance resistance with Muhammad Dahlan, or to balance Abu Mazen with transparency or to balance Sa`d Hariri with intelligence or to balance Husni Mubarak with the rule of law.   (thanks Nabeel)