Friedman on Arab Freedom

The New York Times' Tom Friedman writes about the direction the new government in Egypt should take, and the other Arab Spring governments as well:

The principles identified by the 2002 U.N. Arab Human Development Report, which was written by and for Arabs. It said that for the Arab world to thrive it needs to overcome its deficit of freedom, its deficit of knowledge and its deficit of women’s empowerment. And, I would add, its deficit of religious and political pluralism. We should help any country whose government is working on that agenda — including an Egypt led by a Muslim Brotherhood president — and we should withhold our support from any that is not.

That's easy for Friedman to say, but what of our decades-old relationship with the very undemocratic and unpluralistic rulers of of Saudi Arabia? Or the king of Jordan?

Should we withhold our current support from them? That would be a dramatic change in U.S. policy.