So true, the House of Saud has no friends left. The Saudis themselves hate them, Iraq of course hates them, and they are telling us to kiss off too. Don't know maybe they have a death wish? If so its looking like their wish may just come true..
Most of the family has no responsibilities, just the ability to spend millions of dollars a year on whatever they choose. It absolutely fosters irresponsibility and an arrogance that is hardly endearing.
Saddam Hussein has a far more effective form a government. Absolute power vested in a single despot. Saudi Arabia has a dysfunctional family running a country sitting atop vast riches, where no one person calls the shots, and in a country where powerful political forces, the clerics, control the masses.
All it would take is for a conspiracy of the clerics to suddenly declare that the royal family has committed an affront to Islam, for the entire bunch to be flushed. Perhaps the Saudi army would protect them. Perhaps it wouldn't.
Either way, it's a tenuous hold on power and it can't last forever in a modern world.