It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Michael Mandelbaum, author of "The Ideas That Conquered the World," is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a professor of American foreign policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
The 28 pages the White House deleted from the 850-page report Congress released last week on the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, illustrate the most acute dilemma confronting American foreign policy: what to do about Saudi Arabia. None of the choices is entirely satisfactory.
According to press accounts, the report's missing pages describe support provided by officials of the Saudi Arabian government to several of the hijackers of the airplanes that crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Critics have charged that the Bush administration has suppressed this section of the report out of fear that, in view of its close ties with the Saudi royal family, the administration would suffer embarrassment and political damage from revealing it.