Panel Scrutinizes Political Reform in Saudi Arabia

From: The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

The New Republic, a national 40-page weekly news magazine published by Martin Peretz, hosted a panel on "Political Reform in Saudi Arabia" at the Senate Office Building on Oct. 2, to examine the Kingdom's political future. Disappointingly, there were no Saudi Arabians on the panel. Moderator Lawrence Kaplan, senior editor at The New Republic, previously served as executive editor of The National Interest, a foreign policy journal published by neocon patriarch Irving Kristol. Some commentators, Kaplan noted, have decided toppling the royal family would serve U.S. interests in Saudi Arabia, ...

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