When George W. Bush stood before Congress in 2002 and uttered the phrase “Axis of Evil,” it was delivered with the certainty of a man who believed history itself had chosen sides. Because what that speech really did was not identify evil, but monopolise the right to define it.
It gave Washington, and those aligned with it, a blank cheque to wage war while claiming moral immunity. Two decades later, that cheque has been cashed in full. The joint U.S.–Israeli assault on Iran is not an aberration.
It is the logical conclusion of the “Axis of Evil” doctrine. Pre-emption has become permanent war. Suspicion has become justification.
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Power has become its own morality. A sovereign state is bombarded. Its infrastructure is systematically degraded.
Its military leadership is targeted for assassination. Civilians die, not as accidents, but as predictable consequences of a strategy built on overwhelming force.
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