GCC expansion threatens to be a road pockmarked with pitfalls

Jordan's King Abdullah II (L) and Morocco's King Mohammed VI greet a crowd in Fez in 2008 (AFP photo)

By JAMES M. DORSEY
AL ARABIYA

Gulf leaders may be skating on thin ice with their willingness to embrace Jordan and Morocco as members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

If the move is designed to buttress the region’s oil-rich monarchies against the wav…