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August 30, 2011       Share:    

Source: http://nationalinterest.org/print/article/brezhnev-the-hejaz-5733

Brezhnev in the Hejaz

(National Interest) Bruce Riedel - The Saudi royal family is afraid. Very, very afraid. A crisis of leadership is brewing. The king is ailing and his successor, Crown Prince Sultan, is in even worse health. Their hard-line brother, Prince Nayef bin Abdel Aziz, is set to take the throne. Saudi Arabia has proclaimed a twenty-first-century equivalent of the old Soviet Brezhnev Doctrine for its own backyard. No uprising will be tolerated in a neighboring kingdom.

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