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This confuses me a bit, is he not more moderate than his predecessors? They've had some movement on women's rights with ability to drive and run for office.

Yes they're still terrible with human rights and they're still killing people in Yemen, but they were doing that before without the current improvement.

The NYT article about M.B.S did sound like a general improvement in direction.

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> Yes they're still terrible with human rights and they're still killing people in Yemen, but they were doing that before without the current improvement.

Apparently MBS was been behind the devastating involvement of KSA in Yemen from well before his taking power.

And Booze Allen Hamilton has been providing guidance along the way - at least there appears to be hope for some social issues and a reduction of religious extremism.

Not all problems are going to be solved quickly at least this appears to be trending a better direction.

I’m not dismissing the terrible things the country does, but it does seem like MBS is at least better about social issues and religious extremism.

If it’s true he is behind their Yemen policy (which I haven’t heard), then letting women drive doesn’t really make up for targeted genocide.

“Mussolini made the trains run on time”

I'm not claiming that it does.

He is an improvement on some social issues, but Friedman credits him for his anti corruption drive, which is a joke. M.B.S is every bit as corrupt as those he’s arrested.

Genocide is bad even if you allow women to contribute to some of the killing.

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