No Carter Doctrine

Consider what would happen if Carter didn't promulgate the Carter Doctrine and committed the US to intervening in the Persian Gulf area to protect American interests. Here's some information on the Carter Doctrine.
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Announced by President Jimmy Carter on 24 January 1980, the “Carter Doctrine” extended U.S. containment policy to the Persian Gulf region. Under pressure from containment advocates, Carter concluded that the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan might be the first step in a threat to the Persian Gulf oil resources. Furthermore, with the overthrow of the shah of Iran (and seizure of American hostages) by militant Islamic revolutionaries earlier in 1979, the United States had lost its primary military ally in the gulf.

To ensure protection of Middle East oil, Carter declared that the United States would consider any attempt by an outside force (the Soviet Union) to gain control of the gulf region an assault on U.S. vital interests that would be repelled by military force if necessary. Consequently, Carter expanded military aid to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Israel, and Pakistan, and went beyond surrogate forces to create a U.S. Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force (RDF).

From its new headquarters, the RDF could call upon 200,000 troops from all services to meet emergencies in the gulf. It also acquired air and naval basing rights at Diego Garcia, a British atoll in the Indian Ocean, for positioning more than a dozen preloaded merchant ships to support any initial deployment. Additional basing rights were sought in several East African countries. Many of these were later used in the Persian Gulf War of 1991.
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As a variation on this theme, you can also consider the possibility that the Carter Doctrine is revoked once the Soviet Union falls and the original premise goes by the boards.
 
Well seeing as it was designed to deterr or fight outside invasion of the ME, the question should be, "if no Carter Doctrine does any outside force attempt to invade or dominate the ME?"

Only possible canidate I see is the Soviet Union. Now would they?

Only senerio I can envision is if butterflies lead to a communist attempted coup in Iran, followed by request for help from the Soviet Union.
 
The USN was fighting the tanker war protecting reflagged Kuwaiti tankers and the Soviets were leasing tankers to Kuwait. So even without a Soviet threat the US was involved in the PG very soon after the Carter doctrine was promulgated.
 
The USN was fighting the tanker war protecting reflagged Kuwaiti tankers and the Soviets were leasing tankers to Kuwait. So even without a Soviet threat the US was involved in the PG very soon after the Carter doctrine was promulgated.

That was 1980s, after Carter doctrine was implemented.....
 
Yes, sorry. I was thinking that it might have died off after the Cold War ended the Soviet threat which was its orginal rationale. Saddam invading Kuwait would have kept it alive, so perhaps that event could be stopped or postponed but then I remembered that the US was in a shooting war in the PG years before Saddam invaded Kuwait. So no, once promulgated it isn't going away.
 
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