[Positive Balance]

Oh, and a question to Observer: so the US is evil, and so are the evil Saudi Wahabis... What, however, if US-Saudi relations do actually deteriorate. Is there a lesser evil that we should tentatively support? Should Syria be treated with full respect and absolved of its mistakes because Saudi is worse? Saudi Arabia is a dilemma, a paradox, and a Pandora's Box. How to convince it to change its ways without making things worse and losing control entirely? Finally, can Lebanon afford to reject relations with countries for having dirty foreign policy agendas? Would that not mean that all the traditional power-brokers and foreign allies that all the parties in Lebanon are currently in league with (to varying degrees) directly or indirectly should be shunned?