False, As U.S. had started defending the democracies after World war 1 and after the world war 2 it started institutionalizing democracy in the countries who had lost in the war such as, Japan and Germany.
After the cold-war, U.S. had started promotion of Democracies actively, with the consensus of dissolution of Soviet union.
But it is after 2001, that American officials started questioning the American democracies promotions in MENA region, and suggested the promotion of democracy as means to prevent terrorism.
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