John Tatum is one of the most plugged-in businessmen I know, and yet when the bombs started flying over his hotel room in downtown Doha — just a few minutes from the embattled US military facility in Qatar — he was stranded and helpless. “It was truly frightening,” Tatum, who runs the Dallas-based marketing firm Genesco Sports, told me late last week as he was scrambling to leave the oil-rich Gulf state and return to safety in the US. Tatum might not be a household name for many readers of The