Matthew Yglesias points out this article on Saudi Arabia that makes clear that, well, Saudi Arabia still stinks, despite getting less attention in recent weeks. Excerpt:

But there will be no committee of inquiry into the rips in the social fabric that shaped 15 of Saudi Arabia’s young men as terrorists and which make Abdullah Al Gathani and many of his campus colleagues respond to the attacks as they do. And there will be no royal commission into the making of Osama bin Laden and the thousands who fell in behind him for jihad in Afghanistan.

Instead, Saudis seek refuge in a parallel universe, a place where answers to questions about what is rotten in Saudi Arabia dwell on the faults of the US and Israel; a place where inquiries about the shortcomings of its schools and universities provoke mockery of the American education system; a place where criticism of the security authorities meets mirth over US intelligence failures; a place where the democratic void is championed as protection for the rights of individuals.

As the House of Saud is pulled this way and that between its military alliance with the US and its religious partnership with the keepers of Saudi Arabia’s strict Wahabi Islamic creed, economists are rating it as a brittle Third World economy – despite its massive oil wealth.

Arguably, problems with Iraq are more pressing — but Saudi Arabia is at the root of Islamofascism everywhere, and the Saudi regime in Arabia, along with its collection of hate-spewing preachers, will have to be removed root and branch before it’s all over.