Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Robert Worth on Saudi Arabia

Look at this sentence: "For decades, Washington depended on Saudi Arabia — a country of 30 million people but the Middle East’s largest reserves of oil — to shore up stability in a region dominated by autocrats and hostile to another ally, Israel. The Saudis used their role as the dominant power in OPEC to help rein in Iraq and Iran..." The sentence implies that Saudi Arabia is NOT run by autocrats.