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korea, syria, iraq, yemen, somalia, south china sea. these are real powder kegs with a short fuse burning. before we make decisions on being, quote, presidential, we need to see how it plays out. do journalists have a tendency, a natural tendency to rally around the flag in moments of crisis and military action? is that detrimental? they do have that tendency and we should fight it. rallying around the flag doesn t mean rallying around a military strike. rallying around the flag is what s best for the country. what s best for the country is for journalists to be skeptical, not cynical, but skeptical and ask the questions. what does this mean? where can this lead? what is the purpose of this? what is the motivation of this? that s the role we should be playing in societies. wars or military actions,
social media, satellite tv, the internet. people saudis know what s going on in the world in a way they never did. and the more the king has tried to inch things in the direction of progress, the more the conservatives pull in the opposite direction. so i think the divisions in society are greater, number one. number two, the information is greater. and number three, the royal family, the band of brothers, is running out and they are going to have to make a generational change. and a lot of saudis who watch this kind of cartoon time bomb with the fuse burning, you know, they have nothing to say about it, but they do worry that the grandsons, all of these hundreds of grandsons who would be king, that some of them will wind up fighting amongst each other. you re saying that, look, a lot of young saudis flirt with jihad and things like that