Saudi Arabian Prince does the unthinkable
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story...
Trump and Tillerson have already done more for peace in the Middle East then any other admin https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVuXOtGX0...
The deep state has many tentacles Saudi Arabian
Arrests last year were the first dominos to fall.https://http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/06/middlee...
The CNN article is critical of the anti corruption head . That to me means he is doing the right thing. The Crown Prince said his anti-corruption campaign in November was an example of the shock therapy the Kingdom needed, because of endemic corruption. “You have a body that has cancer everywhere, the cancer of corruption. You need to have chemo, the shock of chemo, or the cancer will eat the body.” The Kingdom couldn’t meet budget targets without halting this looting, he said.
Prince Mohammed said he remembers corruption personally, as people tried to use his name and connections starting in his late teens. “The corrupted princes were a minority, but the bad actors got more attention. It harmed the energy of the royal family.” All but 56 of those arrested have now been freed after paying restitution: “Most of them know they have made big mistakes, and they have settled.”
The Crown Prince said that a “shock” was also needed to check extremism in the Kingdom. He said his reforms, giving greater rights to women and fewer to the religious police, were simply an effort to reestablish the practices that applied in the time of the Prophet Mohammed.
Trump and Tillerson have already done more for peace in the Middle East then any other admin https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVuXOtGX0...
The deep state has many tentacles Saudi Arabian
Arrests last year were the first dominos to fall.https://http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/06/middlee...
The CNN article is critical of the anti corruption head . That to me means he is doing the right thing. The Crown Prince said his anti-corruption campaign in November was an example of the shock therapy the Kingdom needed, because of endemic corruption. “You have a body that has cancer everywhere, the cancer of corruption. You need to have chemo, the shock of chemo, or the cancer will eat the body.” The Kingdom couldn’t meet budget targets without halting this looting, he said.
Prince Mohammed said he remembers corruption personally, as people tried to use his name and connections starting in his late teens. “The corrupted princes were a minority, but the bad actors got more attention. It harmed the energy of the royal family.” All but 56 of those arrested have now been freed after paying restitution: “Most of them know they have made big mistakes, and they have settled.”
The Crown Prince said that a “shock” was also needed to check extremism in the Kingdom. He said his reforms, giving greater rights to women and fewer to the religious police, were simply an effort to reestablish the practices that applied in the time of the Prophet Mohammed.
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There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems...
Women driving and being hired for work. Time will tell but these are positive steps.
The fact that he met a Coptic pope vs Pope Francis confirms this shift. Erdogan remains true to his vision of wiping out Ataturk's legacy in Turkey by meeting Francis who is a demagogue of the worst kind.
Good balancing of power in the region.
If there is going to be an absolute ruler, then MbS is a lot better than most.
He could even drag Saudi forward into the 19th, 20th (or 21st) century.