(Jerusalem Post) Daniel Pipes - Many ex-U.S. ambassadors to Riyadh have received substantial sums of money from the Saudis. Hume Horan, himself a former U.S. ambassador to the kingdom and the great and noble exception to this pattern, explains: "Money works wonders, and if you've got an awful lot of it, and a royal title - well, it's amusing to see how some Americans liquefy in front of a foreign potentate, just because he's called a prince."
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