However, the United Arab Emirates, by the late 1990s, told U.S. officials that they thought that Saddam Hussein was meeting his international obligations and that containment of Iraq was no longer necessary [REF].
Articles in Foreign Affairs[REF] and for the Cato Institute[REF] in 1994 criticized dual containment as it "shot through with logical flaws and practical inconsistencies and is based on faulty geopolitical premises" and "required a prolonged U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf region." .