THAT SAUDI BOMBING: I’m not sure I can improve on Andrea Harris’s take:

Let’s just drop all this “was it Al Qaeda? Or some other (insert some Arabic phrase)?” nonsense and call them something generic, like “the usual bunch of cretins.” And their motives are no big mystery; I am sure I know why the cretins blew up stuff in Saudi Arabia this time. They want to get rid of all the Westerners there, and then all the rest of the foreigners, Muslim though all those Indians and Indonesians and Malaysians might be. The Usual Bunch of Cretins are Arab supremacists just like the Nazis were “Aryan” supremacists. They are just another flavor of terror pie, like Bin Laden and his Taliban crew, and that joker we just kicked out of Iraq. It’s all from the same shelf of fly-specked, half-baked goods.

I think it’s a sign that their reach has grown short, when they can’t arrange terror attacks except in their own hometowns.

As for the U.S. withdrawal of troops from Saudi-controlled Arabia, well, it’s not a victory for them. Because, you see, you can’t invade a country if you’re already there. . . . .