AMADO S. TOLENTINO, JR.

“FROM the bushes to the desert” was how a colleague jokingly described my diplomatic assignment from Papua New Guinea to Qatar. Looking back, both assignments were most welcome, challenging and fulfilling at the same time but my mind is on Qatar right now since a four-month-old geopolitical feud set the tiny but fabulously wealthy Qatar against its neighbors and rattled a previously placid part of the Middle East. The rift has affected the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council and threatens to undermine regional stability. To think that the Gulf corner of the Middle East has been largely free of war, refugees or political turmoil in recent years.

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