"If the nations of that area should lose their independence, if they were dominated by alien forces hostile to freedom, that would be both a tragedy for the area and for many other free nations whose economic life would be subject to near strangulation. Western Europe would be endangered . . . The free nations of Asia and Africa, too, would be placed in serious jeopardy. And the countries of the Middle East would lose the markets upon which their economies depend. All this would have the most adverse, if not disastrous, effect upon our own nation's economic life and political prospects."-Source: President Dwight D. Eisenhower, "Eisenhower Doctrine," 1957Arguments similar to those expressed in the excerpt were later employed to justify which of the following?

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