Stopping the Saudis: Is this administration willing? Apparently not.

The Bush administration's decision to withhold portions of the Joint Inquiry Report into 9/11-the sections that reportedly deal with Riyadh's support for terrorism-is perhaps its most serious political misstep to date. It provides an opening for an attack on the president on a legitimate national-security issue-one that, unlike the WMD and Iraq-war issues, has real substance and political traction. More importantly, the unwillingness of Washington to face up to the incontrovertible evidence that our Saudi friends are the chief financial and ideological enablers of Islamic extremism and terrorism will sooner or later hamper our ability to pursue the war on terror. In fact, ...