Portrayals of internal politics as contests between United States–allied ‘moderates’ and puritanical ‘Wahhabis’ are grossly oversimplified. So too is a menu that offers two stark choices: an absolute monarchy tilting toward the West or a revolutionary Islamist regime hostile to the West.
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