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Originally posted by bilmore
I wish - hope, maybe - that that were true. It's more my perception that there has already been a surrender.
(ETA - that was unclear - I don't mean a surrender where everyone joins one side, but one in which the mainstream makes no effort to rein in the militants, or to criticize them, or to interfere with them in any way, almost treating it as "well, we understand why they're that way, and can't/won't complain . . .")
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After the recent attacks/hostage taking/mutilation/escape incident in Khobar, I heard NPR interview a guy who used to cover the area for the NYT and now appears to work for some kind of fund investing in the petroleum industry (interesting career jump, but I digress). I can't find a link, or I'd post it. He said that there is virtually constant violence in Saudi Arabia right now between the regime and the AQ-type folks, very little of which is reported in the West because the regime has done such a good job of keeping Westerners out of most of the country and of managing the media otherwise.
