Saudi Arabia’s Arab Spring, at Last
By Thomas Friedman
Nov, 23, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/opinion/saudi-prince-mbs-arab-spring.html?comments#permid=24947255
I am with Mr. Friedman in his fervent wish, that this "Arab Spring" will actually lead to real, positive, and lasting change in Saudi Arabia, and perhaps the Middle East.
However, just as Mr. Friedman's overly optimistic analysis of the past Arab Springs, for example in Egypt, was completely off base, colored, as his analyses mostly are, by the last person he talks to, and by a blue-eyed unrealistic assessment of what social media can do, I fear this optimistic analysis too will prove to be wildly off.
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