Things aren’t the way they’re supposed to be for Aspen’s favorite Saudi, Prince Bandar. First he put his gazillion dollar Starwood mansion on the block and resigned as Saudi Arabia’s amabassador to the the United States. Now he’s becoming (gasp!) irrelevant. “The problem,” says Martin S. Indyk, head of the Brookings Institution’s Saban Center for Middle East Policy and a former United States ambassador to Israel, “is that Bandar has been pursuing a policy that was music to the ears of the Bush administration, but was not what King Abdullah had in mind at all.”
