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When President Bush first used "Axis of Evil" to describe Iran, Iraq and North Korea in his State of the Union address last January, the phrase instantly entered the lexicon of contemporary politics. For the President's fans, the words cleverly linked memories of World War II to Bush's belief that the contest with terrorists and the states who succor them is a war of moral clarity. For his foes, the term was cheap and illogical nonsense; there was no "axis," it was said, for the three nations posed different and discrete threats. As for branding them evil, that...
...whether or not these programs are evil, they're mighty dangerous. What should the Bush Administration do about them? Whatever it can, without searching for a spurious consistency in its approach to widely differing situations. In Iraq, as we know, that means using the U.N. inspections regime, backed by the possible use of force, to insist on Baghdad's disarmament. In North Korea, where military action is too dangerous--given the proximity of Seoul to Northern artillery--it means persuading those who have protected Pyongyang in the past to isolate it now. Practically, that means talking to Beijing--Deputy Secretary...
...companies I never bothered to understand in the first place, with their energy trading and e-tailing and telling people they've got mail. None of the news seemed at all appropriate to this year: Attacking Iraq? Jimmy Carter getting a peace prize? Oil tanker spills? Axis of evil? Airline bankruptcies? Ozzy Osbourne? It's as if CNN was replaced by CNNClassic. In fact, I'm pretty sure they're rerunning old infrared shots of Baghdad. The terrorists that struck the U.S. in 2002 weren't recruits from international sleeper cells but the regular crazy homegrown kind: a sniper spending...
...bipartisan slam, Stewart called Republicans “brilliantly evil,” quickly adding, “Democrats, by the way, are tragically pathetic...
...protests to date have been organized by extremist groups like the International Action Center, which supports ex-Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic. If the United States really is the greatest threat to world peace, then leaders like Milosevic and countries like North Korea are bravely standing up to the evil hyperpower to return the world to a state of equality among nations...