this was taken strate out of the "beans or bullets?" chapter of the book "leadership for dictators"
dictatorships keep power by dishing otu beans. if that don't work, then come the bullets. the uae fortunately has lots of beans and often there are second or third servings and that keeps the local peasants happy. this is the easier way of keeping power in the long run if you are fortunate enough to have surplus beans and aren't too greedy- jist buy everyone off. most poorer dictatorships don't (or they are too greedy to share the beans) and so they resort to bullets, as can bee seen by some of the gcc's neighbors and other 3rd word countrys. it will be interesting in years ahead when there are less beans.