We have been shipping somewhere in the neighborhood of 2 billion dollars a year to Mubarak as pay off for keeping peace with Israel. Most of the money goes to the army, who really controls the country.

Not too likely the same thing will happen in Saudia Arabia, as the King manages to give everyone just enough money to keep them from getting too unhappy.

There is very little chance that anything resembling a democracy can exist in the middle east. Unlike the U.S., where religion and politics are separate, in the Muslim world, they are very much the same.