Egads!

Mark Helprin writes that Bush 43 has failed the test of September 11:

We fought for a year to save Saudi Arabia from Saddam Hussein. Why will Saudi Arabia, if it is not an enemy, not allow us the same bases from which we protected it, to protect ourselves? What relationship with them, exactly, do we wish to preserve? They are used to buying whatever they need, and over many years they have bought us in many ways. Immediately after Sept. 11, they dropped oil prices. This was more than anti-invasion insurance, it was blood money...

Strong language, much of which I'm included to agree with. Someone coined the phrase, but I forget who (Instapundit? Best of Web?):
The road to Baghdad is through Riyahd.