Rattling the palace windows in the Persian Gulf
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0 Left 0 Centered 0 RightIt's not easy promoting democracy and defending monarchies at the same time. But that's the awkward position the Obama administration finds itself in these days in the Arab world, where many of the countries we consider our best friends — Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Morocco and Bahrain, to name a few — are ruled by families that seized power in the tribal past and hold on to it by virtue of heredity.