We might as well be Zen I am linking to a Maureen Dowd article. It's about Saudi Arabia-and even Dowd can't manage to trivialize the subject, though she does her best (some issues do not require snide satire, but righteous gravity). In any case, as I read the article, I came to two conclusions: 1) Saudis believe America does too much 2) Saudis believe America doesn't do enough We really can't win here, can we? It reminds me of the Naomi Wolf anecdote where feminist students at a liberal college attacked her book for: 1) Not having enough scholarly footnotes 2) Being discriminatory against women of color in the Third World who were illiterate and could not read