Guns and Roads

President Obama is in Riyadh this week and yesterday it took over an hour to get back to the residence as police cars were lined up at intervals of a few yards the full length of King Fahd Road, with officers holding machine guns watching the highway from the hard shoulder and every bridge, intersection and paving. The traffic was at a standstill in various places. I never knew there were so many police officers in any city in the world, let along all brought together along one major road - to protect one person.