Greetings all,
Over the weekend I happened to catch part of a Tim Russert interview with Tom Friedman. Although Tom is a big-time liberal, I do enjoy his thoughts on the Middle East, which was the focus of the interview.
He mentioned a few points that I think will have bearing on the king of the South:
The Arab world is experiencing a population explosion, fueled largely by oil wealth.
Half the population of the Arab world is under age 25 (if I understood him correctly).