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buf.39072029471442	National Defense University. Institute for National Strategic Studies.	Beyond containment : defending U.S. interests in the Persian Gulf 	2002		.txt	text/plain	2209	78	42	By the same token, the elimination of Iraq as a strategic threat or the installation of a new but equallyantagonistic regime would confront the United States with a number of complex and novel policy choices: the role of Saudi Arabia in U.S. regional security strategy, the degree to which a friendlyand pro-American Iraq could become the focus of Adecision not to use U.S. military force to evict Saddam in favor of continuing long-term containment must confront three realities: first, sanctions are alreadyalmost impossible to enforce; second, Iraq will eventuallypossess and deployWMD and longer-range ballistic missiles; and third, the U.S. military presence in the region, especially Saudi Arabia, is a source of growing resentment and a mounting domestic liability for the ruling families of host countries. Either a continuation of the policy of active containment or a policy of retrenched defense and deterrence would require the maintenance of a significant military presence in the Gulf, with all its attendant political and security risks for both the Gulf Arab countries and the United States.	./cache/buf.39072029471442.pdf	./txt/buf.39072029471442.txt