I've spent the last week in the Gulf, first in the UAE (Abu Dhabi and Dubai) and then in Kuwait. As I head back to DC this evening, here's a bit of what I heard, learned, confirmed, and changed my view on: Heard: Lumping the Gulf states together is almost always a mistake that undermines analysis and policy, but it keeps happening. Many of us who work on the region will view this as obvious. But I was taken aback by how intensely, and how often, I heard frustration that policymakers (not just A