I agree, but common sense says peak of all tensions will occur in year of 2017, from now until around the end of 2017. That's what I see personally, not just in KSA but also the rest of the region. Afterwards I believe people will be content and situation will prosper.
To be a good cook, you must first be a bad one comes to mind.
Essentially every region, civilization and people etc. throughout history have gone through good and lesser good periods in their history. The MENA region entered a somewhat quite unstable period after the "Arab Spring" after being fairly stable and uneventful (by large) in the 1990's and early 2000's (if we exclude the invasion of Iraq in 2003) overall.
As the late Prince Saud al-Faisal (one of the most experienced diplomats in the modern era) said shortly before his passing last year:
"Saud made a prophetic comment in our last conversation, in November 2011. We were talking about the unruly revolution known as the Arab Spring sweeping the region. Most Saudi officials were terrified of this revolt, but Saud was calm, even hopeful. “It is a great transformation in the Arab world,”
he said. “You can never avoid what the people want, no matter what government you have. . . . We are developing. Maybe not as quick as a revolution, but we are developing in a way that’s stable.”
This is from a fairly interesting article published by WP.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/a-30-year-old-saudi-prince-could-jump-start-the-kingdom--or-drive-it-off-a-cliff/2016/06/28/ce669a3e-3c69-11e6-a66f-aa6c1883b6b1_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_no-name:homepage/story
Anyway, outside of the menace of terrorism (which admittedly is often blown completely out of proportion) almost every other sector whether it is education, economy, infrastructure or other areas, is moving in the right direction (or at least evolving for the better) in the Arab and Muslim world.
I just read this book lately.
I can highly recommend it.
Of course the usual pessimists and doomsayers will preach what they always preach (hyperbole, overreactions, negativity) but I will let them do what they do best. They won't likely change anyway regardless of the ground realities.