Innocents Abroad or Whatever

In a Saudi-controlled Arab News exclusive, we get to feel what it’s like to be a terror-sponsor abroad:

Osama Bin Laden should be proud of having succeeded in erecting a thick wall of mistrust and suspicion between the Americans and us. It is an achievement that has pleased a broad base of extreme rightist Americans as well as the pro-Israeli lobby who are now doing everything possible to plug any cracks that might appear in the wall and to prevent it from coming down.

However, Bin Laden and the Israeli lobby notwithstanding, we have to deal with the United States, as an important world power despite our wide differences with it over its Middle East policy. America continues to enjoy a substantial share in our country