The impact of the events of September 11 on the American foreign policy towards Iraq after 2001

The attacks of September 11, 2001 were a watershed in changing America's plans towards the Middle East, and they brought about a profound change in American strategic thinking and a radical shift in its international priorities. The thrust of this principle is the use of American power and power to protect its security, perpetuate its interests, maintain its hegemony and spread its principles, especially since it has a number of goals that it worked to achieve through these attacks, and through which it was able to redeploy the American military forces In the region in a manner that provides it with the ability and flexibility to reach the farthest point of strategic importance in the region, and it was not satisfied with that, but rather strengthened the region with military bases surrounding it from all sides and directions, especially as it considered the Middle East region the main focus of terrorism, and for this reason it put the slogan of fighting terrorism in Introduction to the goals that it sought to achieve by various means and tools, and in this context it declared war on Iraq under the pretext of supporting terrorism and seeking to obtain weapons of mass destruction and supporting terrorism.