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Axis of Evil
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February 5, 2002
CNN
WASHINGTON -- Based on what I have heard from senior Bush administration officials, I know that President Bush didn't casually decide to condemn three countries by name during his State of the Union address last week before Congress. "States like these and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world by seeking weapons of mass destruction," the president said, referring to Iran, Iraq and North Korea. "These regimes pose a grave and growing danger."
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Analyzing the 'Axis Of Evil'
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February 6, 2002
NEWSWEEK
Rhetoric aside, "axis of evil" doesn't mean much. Iraq and Iran are bitter enemies—they fought each other in the bloodiest war of the 1980s—and North Korea has little in common with either of them. Though all three "rogue nations" are thought to be developing weapons of mass destruction, no U.S. attack is imminent against any of them; good military options are as scarce as allies for such an undertaking. Instead, Washington faces challenges,
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The Axis Of Evil Is It For Real?
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February 6, 2002
Time Magazine
For a moment last week it looked as if George W. Bush was about to declare war on three enemies at once. During his State of the Union speech, when the President asserted that Iran, Iraq and North Korea "constitute an axis of evil," he fired a shot that had been months in the making.
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Iran Moves to Ease Tension with U.S.
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February 5, 2002
Reuters
Iran moved Tuesday to ease tension with the United States, seeking help from Washington to arrest any al Qaeda fighters who may have fled to the Islamic republic from Afghanistan.
After days of harsh warnings from U.S. officials and angry responses by Iranian hard-liners and military officials, Iran's reformist Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi offered an olive branch.
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The Lessons of Terror
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February 5, 2002
Time Magazine
INTERVIEW WITH CALEB CARR
TIME.com: Your book is a welcome change from much of the discussion about terrorism because it actually offers a universal definition — terrorism is any form of warfare that deliberately targets a civilian population. Has the fact that your definition can apply to actions taken by regular armies as well made people uncomfortable?
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The Lessons of Terror
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February 5, 2002
Time Magazine
(EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK)
To be emblematic of our age is to bear an evil burden. The twentieth century, scarcely finished, will be remembered as much for its succession of wars and genocides as it will for anything else; and sadly the dawn of the new millennium has brought no end to this horrifying tradition.
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Barbarism and Blinders
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February 4, 2002
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Nearly five months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, the world of human rights appears to be upside down in places. Now that the Qaida and Taliban prisoners at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have become the new symbols of renewed international criticism of the United States, even allied governments have felt encouraged to voice concerns. There is no reason for this. The prisoners are being treated properly and humanely.
The most exaggerated charges, which range from "barbarism" to "concentration camps," are disqualified by the choice of words. Delegations of the Red Cross and the U.S. Congress, British visitors and journalists have visited Camp X-Ray, and found no cause for complaint. The differences between Camp X-Ray and a concentration camp would have been more obvious had observers been allowed to visit Cuban prisons. European leftists would do well to take a look at Cuban leader Fidel Castro's dungeons, which are still -- in their view -- justified as regrettable but unavoidable collateral damage of the 1959 Cuban revolution.
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