Saudi arabia Quote by John R. Bradley

““The objection to the American empire is not that it is an empire per se, but that, arguably unlike that which was ruled by the British, it has for decades been such an abysmally incompetent one, making matters worse not only for people in the countries where it planted its two left feet but for itself and its own people, too. We can meanwhile only pray that the “peak oil” theory is right and Saudi Arabia will, in the not-too-distant future, run out of it and thus return to its pre-oil status as a dusty, irrelevant Bedouin backwater; and the oil-rich ayatollahs in Iran will also lose all leverage outside their own backyard. In the meantime, let us hope for no more violent, dead-end revolutions.””

— John R. Bradley