That’s a hoot! Saudi sits on top of 1/4 of the known worlds oil supply. Billions and Billions of dollars and years and years of wealth poured into that sandpit and they still have no other export, no science centers, no art centers, but they do have public beheadings and amputations. If any country could ever have developed a modern society with money in the history of man, it was Saudi Arabia. But money does not make society. Never has, never will. They like being in the dark ages. Give them any progessive society and they will turn it into a hellhole of corruption and repression ASAP. It is the Islamic way.
Amen. One can hardly argue with such track record. The resume says it all.
What I would like to hear about is the excesses in which the Saudis live, and how that money is distributed. My understanding is that one, you have to come from the right family, and two, the controlling family has so much money it doesn't know what to do with it. Had a friend who grew up in several oil countries, and while a teenager in UAE, he had a friend who was wealthy prince, and their family had stooopid stuff like gold plated machine guns, gold plated commode seats, and monster truck type Mercedes coupes.
Even though that is kind of the absurd, it illustrates the thinking of the Islamic world in general: the Palestinians, and others deemed displaced or disenfranchised, must be compensated. But not by the Islam, the Arabians, or the Persians, but the West. Same goes for Israel: Palestinians deserve a homeland, but not in Yemen, Saudi, or any other Middle Eastern state, it must come from Israel. Although this thinking is irrational and illogical, and intellectually dishonest, it continues to shape our world.