You are clueless about the middle east.
I imagine the House of Saud has probably got a contengiency team (with Americans on it) on 24-7 by now.
Saudi has always been unstable. And violent.
/johnny
I know there is violence and instability in every mid east nation, I am aware that anything can happen at any given time. And that there is not really any Arab nation where people are content at all with their governments.
I only meant about relative liklihoods and unliklihoods. There is a reason these uorisings have now engulfed a nation like Egypt but not Saudi Arabia, despite the fact that Egypt has much larger population and a more powerful military.
And the UAE;s population is prediminantly foreign workers from South and SE Asia whose sole priority is supporting their families back home. The actual Arabs, a good percentage of whom are ridiculously rich and overindulged, are the minority.
Correct — what shocks me about Saudi Arabia is that there are still SAUDI nationals who are beggars. And they had a budget deficit a few years ago as the SAud family splurges on luxuries for themselves.