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B0CW3TQ384 M4B@64 kbps The September 11 attacks upended America's relatively strong influence in the Middle East and prompted President George W. Bush's plan to remake the region through a war in Iraq. By bringing liberal democracy to Iraq, Bush hoped that the country would be a springboard for the spread of democracy to neighboring authoritarian states. Yet the war's disruption created an opportunity for Iran to advance its own opposing ambitionsone that would turn the Middle East into a bastion of resistance to Western hegemony and bring an end to Israel's existence as a Jewish state. The resulting clash not only intensified the Iraq War, it reverberated in states across the region.