is democracy being flogged?
“Omar al-Saeed had called for a constitutional monarchy and attacked the ruling family over its human rights record.”
Pretend you’re flying a plane over a vast ocean. You’re almost out of fuel as you pass a small, uninhabited island. But you fly on hopping to find a landing place that will save the plane. But you’re really low on fuel. Do you go back and land the plane on water? Or, do you fly until you crash and then face death?
This is the royal house’s dilemma. They could soft-land now and stay a powerful but not all powerful political force. Eventually, if they don’t soft land at an island, they’ll crash at sea and probably die.