What $3.00+ per gallon gas buys you...

[ANDY M]

Jeff, those boys in your photos are really the "Lower Upper Class" of the Arabs. They are the spoiled jet set rich kids with no interest in any national policy, they just show off by spending their unearned money that was given to them.
All of the gulf states are monachies, and the rulers know that changing their economy to anything that would cause them to loose power isn't going to happen soon.
The clerics that can cause change to occure are the minority that don't want to stir up a hornets nest.
Also, there is almost no middle class that could influence the ruling class.
The only thing they all agree on is that Israel shouldn't exist, and that if the west supports Israel, they will continue to rip us off.
(With the help of our own oil industry, who are showing record profits). Remember, oil is a speculative commodity that is traded worldwide, and that there is no shortage of Americans getting rich off of the worlds troubles.
JMO.