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To: Elroy who wrote (223770)	3/13/2005 2:38:29 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572963

I think the same thing will happen in the ME. First the smaller nations that are already prosperous and better educated like Qatar and Kuwait will start to move in the direction of democracy. We'll see. I think the oil rich sheikdoms are going to be the last to see democracy. The main reason being their people are generally educated and comfortable (so they are not going to fight for much of anything), and the royal families don't want to give up their control of the oil revenues. That might be. However, recently, I saw a princess from, I think, Kuwait on a tv show. The woman was very educated, and very demanding in terms of her rights. I think it may be hard for these sheikdoms to maintain the status quo as their populations become better educated. ted