Good point...

I don't usually agree with Matt Yglesias, but today he makes good points regarding the US relationships with the fine folks who control most of the world's oil supplies:

"But it doesn't require our policies to be especially friendly to the regimes at hand, and it certainly doesn't require the unseemly degree of friendliness that you often see. At gatherings of the great and the good, one often sees some Arab princeling or queen treated as the equivalent to an entrepreneur or a democratically elected politician, and there's just no reason to do that."

Read the whole thing...