Victor Davis Hanson, in his always stirring articles. Here’s the enmity of the Arab Street as a point of pride for the US:

“Each hour Saudi Arabia appears a more untenable ally, panicky as the light of truth shines into its deepest recesses. The Arab street sinks more and more into irrelevance, as lunatic as it is impotent; its anti-American hatred is to be welcomed rather than feared, given what it presently represents: gender apartheid, religious intolerance, tribalism, and anti-Semitism. Middle Eastern leaders may shake fingers and talk tough, but they have no moral credibility and still less power — and, like former Eastern European Communist hacks, are likely to become the flotsam and jetsam in a tidal wave of change.”

Even Mort Zuckerman sees the awful weakness of the Saudi position, though it won’t be President Bush leading the charge, but rather, American public opinion, which will eventually translate into a policy that the administration beliieves is safe to espouse.

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