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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: quehubo who wrote (39730)8/24/2002 9:57:24 PM
From: FaultLine  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
"This bargain suits the Saudi rulers well. If they empowered the secularized, pro-American Saudis, it would not be long before they demanded things like transparency in budgeting, accountability and representation. The Wahhabi religious establishment, by contrast, doesn't care how corrupt the ruling family is in private — as long it keeps paying off the clerics and gives them a free hand to impose Wahhabi dogma on Saudi society, media and education, and to export it abroad."

a concise summary indeed...

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