“As for us Arabs, it was unimaginably refreshing to hear Biden explicitly say that it was wrong for America to walk away from this region. We are delighted to see Washington finally realize what we have been trying for so long to explain: If you leave a vacuum, it is going to be filled by others — and you may not like who they are.”

-Faisal Abbas, Forget The Trivia, Here’s What Really Mattered In Jeddah [Arab News]