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2011-10-27 Arabia

Saudi king set to name Prince Nayef as heir

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Posted by Fred 2011-10-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 From May. The next logical choice.

Posted by newc 2011-10-27 00:22|| 2011-10-27 00:22|| Front Page Top

#2 He is a hardliner from memory.Not good!

Posted by Pablo 2011-10-27 08:20|| 2011-10-27 08:20|| Front Page Top

#3 He was an activist reactionary ten years ago, but then, he was ten years younger then. What's his health like?

Posted by Mitch H. 2011-10-27 09:38|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2011-10-27 09:38|| Front Page Top

#4 He's supposed to be 77 years old. I've known several people who were 77 years old who were dead.

Posted by Fred 2011-10-27 10:19|| 2011-10-27 10:19|| Front Page Top

#5 This is a big problem with hereditary government. You have little or no idea who the replacement is going to be, since he rarely has to justify himself.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-10-27 10:35|| 2011-10-27 10:35|| Front Page Top

#6 It's not hereditary... it's a combination of hereditary qualification and election by a small oligarchy.

A more sane monarchy would have settled on a younger, stronger, more vigorous leader to bring them through these troubled times. They need a Henry V, but they're setting themselves up with a line of about a dozen King Lears before they can get that far.

Darling Cordelia, do you love me more than anything else?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-10-27 10:49|| 2011-10-27 10:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Thing, would you really want a Wahhabi version of Harry Cut-Throat running Saudi Arabia? You could end up with the Persian Gulf a sea of flames & every Shia from Sanaa to Qom either a refugee or dead.

Posted by Mitch H. 2011-10-27 11:08|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2011-10-27 11:08|| Front Page Top

#8 @ #7 I might be willing to pay higher gas prices for that.

Posted by Hellfish 2011-10-27 12:00|| 2011-10-27 12:00|| Front Page Top

#9 Mitch: I doubt Saudi Arabia has its stuff together to the extent that Henry's England did. They're going to need someone capable if they want to SURVIVE.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-10-27 12:32|| 2011-10-27 12:32|| Front Page Top

#10 After the old Crown Prince croaks from old age.

Posted by mojo 2011-10-27 13:18|| 2011-10-27 13:18|| Front Page Top

#11 I doubt Saudi Arabia has its stuff together to the extent that Henry's England did.

Even in Shakespeare's sanitized and romanticized version of history, Prince Hal's England had just weathered a peasant's rebellion and three civil wars in the course of the last two dozen years, and he mounted his invasion of France as a distraction from everyone's preparations for a fourth go 'round. Say what you will about Saudi, but they tend to export their rebellions and civil wars to neighboring shitholes instead of stirring the local latrines.

Which, come to think of it, is a pretty good description of Henry V's lilies-of-the-field strategy.

Posted by Mitch H. 2011-10-27 14:36|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2011-10-27 14:36|| Front Page Top

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