By Matthew Kaminski
The Wall Street Journal - Nov. 22, 2013
'The U.S. has to have a foreign policy.
Well-defined, well-structured. You don't have it right now,
unfortunately. It's just complete chaos. Confusion. No policy. I mean,
we feel it. We sense it, you know."
Members
of the Saudi royal family have voiced their displeasure with the
Obama
administration's approach to the Middle East through private
channels and recently in public as well. None of them puts it quite like
HRH
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Alsaud.
One of some three-dozen living
grandsons of the first Saudi King Abdulaziz, this prince is a prominent
but atypical royal. His investment company made him the Arab world's
richest businessman. He strikes a modern image for a Saudi, employing
female aides and jet-setting on a private
Boeing
BA +2.29%
747. He's at ease with Western media.
Passing
through New York earlier this week,
Mr. Alwaleed,
who is 58, sits down with the Journal editorial board between a
couple of television appearances. He wears a blue suit, shirt and tie.
These days, his bouffant widow's peak has more salt than pepper. The
prince holds no important government post in Saudi Arabia, but it's hard
to shake the impression that here is the uncensored id of the reserved
House of
Saud.
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