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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (181169)1/21/2004 8:33:08 PM
From: hmaly  Read Replies (1) of 1574299
 
Ted Re...What do you think the monarchy is? What do you think founded Arabia [later to become Saudi Arabia]?

You are trying to take what I said out of context. Is Wahhabi the state sponsored religion? Yes Are all of the princes, and King Fahd Wahhabi fanatics no. Are some of the royal family involved with the fanatics; yes. Is there a good possibility, that if we overthrew the kingdom, established a democratic gov, that an even more fanatic Wahhabi regime would be elected to take its place? Yes

For your interest.

http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20040101faessay83105/michael-scott-doran/the-saudi-paradox.html

The Saudi monarchy functions as the intermediary between two distinct political communities: a Westernized elite that looks to Europe and the United States as models of political development, and a Wahhabi religious establishment that holds up its interpretation of Islam's golden age as a guide. The clerics consider any plan that gives a voice to non-Wahhabis as idolatrous. Saudi Arabia's two most powerful princes have taken opposing sides in this debate: Abdullah tilts toward the liberal reformers and seeks a rapprochement with the United States, whereas Nayef sides with the clerics and takes direction from an anti-American religious establishment that shares many goals with al Qaeda.

That is precisely what I was talking about. It may be true that we will have to do something about SA, as Perle and others suggest. However right now the wise thing is to give it some more time.
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