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Originally posted by kutulu
The thing about the Saudi's is that the royal family is holding on to their rulership of the country by a thread. If they do too much against the terrorists they run the risk of being overthrown by people that are much more sympathetic to the terrorist's ideals and I don't think that would be a good thing.
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Hmm. I agree that it'd be catastrophic to western countries if SA would be hijacked by a militant fundamentalists - but I have heard two theories of the dilemma of Saudi Arabia - (or why the government is on a verge of collapse).
The other one is that the problem is actually lack of reform in government and that pressure is held back only with massive amounts of money coming in from the oil revenues and thus "bribing" off (installing them in useless but well-paid desk jobs) the citizens of Saudi Arabia and just paying for the foreign workers from the poor countries to do the dirty, laborous and lowpaid work.
Another one is that there is huge pressure generated by the social inequality and corrupted fatcat Saudi royalty and that the militant fundamentalists are using that in their propaganda.
I wonder which of these two views is closer to the truth or are they perhaps intermingled.