Further reading: If you missed the cover story of the latest Atlantic Monthly on the Saudi royal family, fasten your seatbelt and read it. That is one devastating insider view, from a former CIA operative. And that is one wild and crazy bunch of folks--all in bed with certain of our esteemed leaders, apparently. Just wondering--why not liberate Saudi Arabia? Yes, they apparently support a lot of terrorism, and so on. But we have massive capitalistic interest in the Saudis, unlike the other nations over there. And they have a long track record of "taking good care" of their political friends. So I guess that makes them not part of the axis of evil. What I just don't get is the handling of all these things by US media and news outlets. Is our media just part of the big system?? Shades of the Frankfurt school!