When you jump like this on the global scene, you have to have your internal front secure. You've got to give the world a chance to digest Dubai. You can only push so fast.

In Iraq they zeroed in on oil, and this appears to be a creeping process, since it is happening in Saudi Arabia.

This can only make the already-damaged image worse. The problem is, for four or five years, we haven't found a way to repair that damaged image.

They're learning they have many enemies over there.

Of course it's an enormous success story. But is it time to pause and reorganize the home front? I think so.