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Re: The Real House of Saud - Saudi Arabia's Oil-For-Tyranny
It certainly has more local legitimacy than new dictatorships. That is the main difference to the House of Assad, Saddam's one off dictatorship or the South American Colonels we needed during the Cold War. Of course these regimes all do things you or I might find terrible. But we have to live with that sometimes till the UN or some other supra national organization guarantees personal security to all. For now the structure of security defines a competitive situation of everyone for herself with recurrent negotiations involving the same players in game theory, which means you do not trash the arch on which your survival is built.
You advocate an absolute monarchy based on radical religious law?
It certainly has more local legitimacy than new dictatorships. That is the main difference to the House of Assad, Saddam's one off dictatorship or the South American Colonels we needed during the Cold War. Of course these regimes all do things you or I might find terrible. But we have to live with that sometimes till the UN or some other supra national organization guarantees personal security to all. For now the structure of security defines a competitive situation of everyone for herself with recurrent negotiations involving the same players in game theory, which means you do not trash the arch on which your survival is built.