Origins of Evil
Posted on:: February 8th, 2003
Two nights ago, Bush’s speechwriter was on The Daily Show, the Jon Stewart fake news program that’s funny because it blurts out the truth. The speechwriter explained with glee how he came up with the phrase “Axis of Evil.” He originally wrote “Axis of Hatred,” but his boss (not Bush) took one look at it and said, “No, it’s the ‘Axis of Evil,'” repeating it a few times aloud to see how it sounds.
This constituted the debate over whether these countries actually are evil and the effect classifying them as such would have. A couple of lobes short of The West Wing, eh?
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The facts are simple: If bush called these countries the axis of the oil I need to enable my family and friends to become richer still, who would have supported the war? or the axis of convienient scapegoats to blame 911 on so the u.s. intelligence network does not come off as total clods? not too supportable.
demonizing ones foe is one of the older tricks to enable one to do as they will with lessened guilt towards how they trat others who in this case turned out to be formidable, but not quite the world domination threat they stopped just short of painting them as.