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...when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan to drive out the ruling Taliban and the al-Qaeda forces it harbored. But an even more portentous development was unsheathed on Jan. 29, 2002, when President Bush broadened his doctrine with a speech identifying America's enemies as an "axis of evil" composed of North Korea, Iran and Iraq...
...with troops in Fort Campbell, Ky., Bush discusses carrying the fight to other nations that support terrorists. “Afghanistan is just the beginning of the war against terror,” he says. “Across the world and across the years, we will fight these evil ones...
...yesterday’s radio address, Bush quoted Elie Wiesel, emphasizing the nation’s “moral obligation to intervene where evil is in control.” Evil, God, moral obligations—Bush’s speeches are sounding more like sermons these days, and the lesson he wants us to take away is that America is doing God’s work. As he declared in the Tennessee faith-based initiatives speech, “Liberty is not America’s gift to the world. Liberty is God’s gift...
...moral complexities of a situation that makes its moral platitudes irrelevant and irresponsible. As we go barreling into a war that involves regional instability and international discord, it seems reckless to have only two words in our diplomatic arsenal: “good” and “evil.” What happened to “statesmanship” “consensus” “debate” and “community?” Without these terms, how can we convince others that our definitions of good and evil are the same...
...means that anti-war groups must be increasingly vigilant about sustaining active debate rather than committing the same mistakes from the other side of the fence. Every time I hear a group or publication ironically refer to Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld as the Washington “axis of evil,” I cringe. As we barrel ahead toward war, we must not fall into the same trap as those we criticize...