The current issue of The New Republic has an interesting piece on Saudi Arabia’s effort to build a security barrier — just like Israel’s — between itself and Yemen. What’s even more interesting is who wrote it, John R. Bradley formerly of the Arab News. Bradley not to long ago described the New Republic as an “ultra-right campaigning American political journal that has long been defined by its crude Zionist agenda.” Meanwhile, his own views of America have been, shall we say, ambivalent.