I can add little to this excellent Rozen report, but I would like to make one point. The age in which people all over the world are happy to be oppressed, told how to live and what to think, is ending. Not just here, where fat and comfortable Americans can sit around and feel all radical while they read blogs and use curse words about Bush, but also abroad. Not everything is changing because of the Internet, but rapid, open communication has let loose a genie that won’t go back into the bottle. That genie is one in which people can turn on the satellite TV station of their choice, read information they believe and trust because it speaks to them, and compare how they live with those not only around them, but around the world.

Of course the Saudis are “worried” about the reaction to Hezbollah’s victories. Like our Masters, the Saudi Royalty can only exist so long as people all over the Middle East believe they are the best keepers of the holy sites of Islam. The minute enoughh people are motivated to act on the truth of how Arab and Islamic leaders in many of these corrupt nations really are, well- let’s just say that it’s time for an Islamic Gandhi or MLK. I love Laura.

“For a long time, Americans were beating the nuclear weapons drum, and countries in the region were saying, ’Yeah, yeah, yeah, we hear you, sure, whatever you say,’ ” he continued. “I think, in the region, while people were concerned about the nuclear issue, what really spooked the Arab regimes was the reaction after Hezbollah’s triumph in Lebanon and the popular reaction in their own countries of infatuation with Hezbollah, and Iran’s defiance.”  Read more