OT : MarmiteThose articles were from the NYTimes and Washington times and are accepted opinions.
Do you know Saudi Arabia is building a wall between it and Iraq, and that there is already a partial wall between it and Yemen ? And, Yemen just fell to an Iranan proxy group, and Iran is right across the straits from UAE. And most of the Saudi neighbors are Sunni, but Iran and it's proxies are Shia.
I don't know how you discount these regional problems or the opinions on Qatar's friendliness to ISIS and muslim extremists.
My first inclination is to just chalk it up to you probably being Canadian, living in a very civil society. I don't know that's true, but when on another Canadian stock board about a year ago, I mentioned that Canada was deliberately devaluing it's currency against the US dollar, I was called a 'conspiracy theorist' by a very sharp Canadian bank guy. But that's what Canada did.
I think underestimating the coming possible scenarios is incredibly naive.
Reply to this in your own defense, and PM me offline if you would like to continue to discuss it.