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12 February 2011
Quote for the day
"Many specialists say this couldn't happen in Saudi Arabia. Yet three weeks ago, when protests overthrew a leader in Tunisia, these same specialists were saying it couldn't happen in Egypt."
Again, the Middle East is not my area of expertise - but having disclosed that, I would expect that if a dozen "protesters" showed up in some square in Riyadh, they might quickly wind up with their heads and bodies going in separate directions.
And a dozen protesters in Egypt would have been brushed aside with equal ease, if less gore. A hundred thousand -- in either country -- is a different matter.
I guess the point I was attempting to make was that I would think it difficult to even find a dozen people who would even RISK trying to instigate a public protest in Saudi Arabia... let alone anything remotely the scale of what transpired in Egypt. Saudi Arabia gives me chills.
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Again, the Middle East is not my area of expertise - but having disclosed that, I would expect that if a dozen "protesters" showed up in some square in Riyadh, they might quickly wind up with their heads and bodies going in separate directions.
The Saudi Arabian Kingdom is no Egypt.
And a dozen protesters in Egypt would have been brushed aside with equal ease, if less gore. A hundred thousand -- in either country -- is a different matter.
I guess the point I was attempting to make was that I would think it difficult to even find a dozen people who would even RISK trying to instigate a public protest in Saudi Arabia... let alone anything remotely the scale of what transpired in Egypt. Saudi Arabia gives me chills.
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