But the question is will the money be used to support fundi Wahabis or not. If the conservatives consolidate power and crack down on a restive population, all hell could break loose.
Saudi has a problem with not enough work and too many rules for a growing number of highly educated younger people who've been exposed to Western lifestyles. The royals can fly to London or where ever when they want to drink and misbehave. The new middle class is stuck under the thumb of the religious police. Someday that place is going to boil over and if the new regime puts Pat-Robertson-in-a-robe in charge, it will be hastened.
The only thing we need to say is that any State-sponsored terrorism (financing, encouraging, hosting or tolerating terrorists) will be treated as an act of war. Full stop. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
I'd rather turn our backs and spend the economic pain on energy alternatives rather than bullets. We need to go there eventually anyway.
I don't want us to interfere, but rooting for moderates to progressives from the sidelines isn't going to hurt anything.
