{"id":181976,"date":"2016-01-25T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T01:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/01\/25\/quote-of-the-day-126\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T20:31:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T01:31:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-126","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/01\/25\/quote-of-the-day-126\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">To understand the Saudi royal family, you don&#8217;t go to the Kennedy School of Government, you read Shakespeare!<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/royal-pains-two-princes-vie-power-saudi-arabia-make-mess-n502271\">Bruce Riedel<\/a>, former CIA national intelligence officer for the Middle East<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> &#8216;Graph of the article linked above.<\/p>\n<p>It describes the rather convoluted and dysfunctional succession politics in the House of Saud, and it&#8217;s a good read.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that the current king suffers from dementia, and his two most likely successors are engaged in a death match to assume the throne.<\/p>\n<p>When the House of Saud falls, and it is when, not if, it will start with a dynastic dispute, and honestly, I think that this might be the time.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi family politics have always been dicey, but with the King being pretty much a figurehead, and his successors being young enough that either one would have a reign of decades, this looks to end up a complete hairball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To understand the Saudi royal family, you don&#8217;t go to the Kennedy School of Government, you read Shakespeare! \u2014Bruce Riedel, former CIA national intelligence officer for the Middle East It&#8217;s in the 2nd &#8216;Graph of the article linked above. It describes the rather convoluted and dysfunctional succession politics in the House of Saud, and it&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002,1031,986,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing","category-house-of-saud","category-middle-east","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}