Matt Welch has a whole column of the stuff, right here:
It is more than reasonable, then, to conclude, that the news and views expressed by the Saudi press (and, thankfully for us, transmitted via the Internet), are officially sanctioned by George Bush’s “friends.” Those friends, apparently, are not very appreciative of the tens of billions in mostly unconditional aid, weaponry and protection the U.S. has provided these past decades.
“If democracy means a governor who is a homosexual in a city in which dance clubs, prostitution, homosexuality, and stripping proliferate, the U.S. can keep its democracy,” wrote Al-Riyadh columnist Abd Al-Wahed Al-Hamid, apparently overlooking the lifestyle choices made by 5,000-plus notoriously decadent Saudi princes.
[…] The political spectrum here is still reeling from the post-Sept. 11 split between the “root cause” anti-war crowd, and their “reject equivalence” pro-war counterparts. But the Saudis should be quaking in their boots, because both sides agree on the insupportable venality of the House of Saud, and the need for the U.S. to overhaul its relationship with the kingdom. When the Village Voice and the Wall Street Journal unite against a common enemy in a time of war, someone’s in deep trouble.
Good stuff, as usual. Nothing really new here, but a well-stated summary of the old.