US/MIDDLE EAST: Arms sales pay few US policy dividends
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- Gulf military assistance
- Foreign policy impacts
- Strategic benefits
- Business tie-in
- Building trust
- Potential liabilities
- 'Blowback'
- Bar to reform
- Little military value
- Linkage problems
- High US expectations
- Frequent disappointment
- Equivocation and frustration
- No public opinion benefits
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