“Check your oil, Mam? Chop off your head?”
Marshall McLuhan said 50 years ago that the “electric information age” would undo all existing hierarchies and doom national sovereignty. That cuts both ways.
She will now be persuaded to recant under penalty of losing her family, her freedom, and, if necessary, her life.
But, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has set up a scholarship prgram (all tuition & expenses paid, financial support for the spouse & dependent, plus medical insurance) for Saudi students to be exposed to US education system & help US-Saudi relations! How generous, modern & progressive of the King! Too bad no amount of education will change the basics in Saudi Arabia. And, I’m wondering if all the Saudi students sent to the US on scholarship are men ??
>>>>”26,744 Saudi students received US F-1 and F-2 visas in 2010, up from 6,836 in 2001.”<<<<