"Saudi Says Bush's Words May Soothe Arab Feelings" quotes Saudi Arabia's foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, as saying that, basically, Arab countries feel ignored by the Bush administration since Sept. 11. Recent statements by Bush, however, have given the prince hope that things may be turning around for Arab-American relations.

And while this article, reported by Douglas Jehl, is complete in every way, it raises an interesting question: How could President Bush's garbled, malapropism-riddled syntax be regarded by anyone as soothing?

The answer to that question is that the Bush administration has the world's top translators on its side, turning such pearls as "My administration has been calling upon all the leaders in the-in the Middle East to do everything they can to stop the violence, to tell the different parties involved that peace will never happen." (Aug. 13, 2001) into, "The United States thinks a Palestinian state is a very viable option."

Let's here it for the President's translators, America's unsung heroes.