Dual containment of Iran and Iraq. Talabani was backed by Iran, the Americans feared this, so they turned a blind eye to Saddam's campaign against him by driving Talabani and the Iranians out and handing over the area to Barazani. The confrontation in the north of Iraq could turn out to be an Iraqi-Iranian one. The Americans are investing in this, they do not want to solve the problem, rather, they want to 'manage the crisis' an important Kissengerian tactic. The GCC states never visualized the Gulf issues as one political body.
Nobody has any idea.
As for the 'stable future', I have doubts whether all the GCC countries would have one, especially Kuwait being bogged down in a triangle of pressures. I see it as an 'American plan' to float Israel in the area and to force its naturalization within its body politic. I have great doubts whether the Americans will succeed in this. There is no democracy in the Arab World to assess. The latter's concept of the Islamic movements is very gloomy and impressionistic and is void of objectivity for obvious historical reasons.