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Originally Posted by The An-Jel When you call certain country's the " Axis of Evil " and your running the most powerful country in the world. Your country hosts the UN, your country is a beacon and the foundation for the world economy, and your country is basically culturally against the things these country's believe in. What do you expect these country's to do: A) Understand that they are evil and say " I'm sorry " bow down and drop everything they are doing that offends you. B) Now that they are labelled Evil and a certain threat and do everything in their power to survive. C) Do nothing and wait for everything to blow over. I am confused as to what a person mentioned above would expect these country's to do for I am a naive civilian (I was told this by Republicans over and over when I suggested Bush's logic might be a touch flawed.)

I think that this is a very interesting subject, An-Jel. I believe that when you’re leading a country as powerful and influential as the US, with all the advantages/disadvantages you’ve mentioned before, you are obliged to make some distinction between your enemy and your ally. I do believe in taking stands, I’m just against who takes them and the reasons for which they’re taken (in our example). A little kid could point out the political immaturity in the term “Evil”. I can’t believe that when one is surrounded with such a number of political advisors and experts, a slip like that could be acceptable. How different is Mr. Bush from Ahemdinejad??? Such words could only be found in the Bible, Koran or Star Wars. When you have someone like Mr. Bush as a sorry excuse for a president, saying that there is an “Axis of Evil”, of course, A psycho like Ahmedi Nejad dubbing America to be the “Great Satan” should be predictable, but not vice versa.