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Saudi society is very conservative...along the lines of the Taliban. After all 100 years ago they were still just camel jockeys living out in the desert...now the country is wealthy beyond the dreams of the Caliph of Bagdad...the Royal family as corrupt and oppressive as ever at least recognizes the reality of the situation that they must deal with the west.

If the Saudi Royal Family is overthrown....who is going to asssume leadership of the country..and will it become a theocracy...and will it be as radical as the Taliban... Osma would like to return under those circumstances....would he be a player on stage or behind the scenes....

And what will the reaction of the West be...Germany and France can hem and haw all they like to the poor house..but the USA may just put the petal to the metal...and say any interuption in the flow of oil is unacceptable...you have to play by the rules of the game or your out...

And I can hear our Liberals just moan over that one...but take a step back..and look around...what if the new Saudi regime turns off the spigot of oil after all they are not worried about this world but the 72 virgins in the next one......what happens to the Global economy...and take a look at the USA, its very economic survival depends on the Global economy...the global staatus quo as it were...Its very easy to imagine that the Global economy will go in the toilette...and with it your job, your house, your car and your Liberal ideas...cause I havn't met a Liberal yet that wants to live like Teddy Kozinsky did in Montana...

Now lets just throw one more rock in this pond and creat a another ripple....Shia and Sunnis don't get along....The Arabs (Saudi) are Sunni and the Iranians are Shia.....It is very easy to imagine the 2 sides squaring off agianst each other...The Arabs side of the equation are very concerned about the influence that Iran (Shia) is having in Iraq, a country that was formerly ruled by Arab Sunnis...

Oh what a tangled mess it all is....and is it any wonder that previous administrations have decided to ignore it...