From Asia Times Online
"Strategically, the GCC was invented - with essential American input - to defend those poor Gulf petromonarchies from the evils of Saddam Hussein and the Iranian Khomeinists, with its members comprising Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates. But when the 2011 Arab revolt exploded in Northern Africa - and then reached the Gulf, in Bahrain, and even generated protests in Oman and Saudi Arabia - the petromonarchies faced a larger evil that simply petrified them: democracy. The status quo had to be protected at all costs."
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