The Peace on The Horizon - 75 Years after The World War 2 in the Middle East (158)

 

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Chapter 6: Genealogy of Islamic terrorism (13)

 

158 Axis of evil (1/4)

September 11 attacks was an epoch-making incident in the history. In January 2002, US President George W. Bush condemned that Iran, Iraq and North Korea inspired international terrorism. He declared three countries as "rogue state". He named these three countries "Axis of evil".

 

Everyone can easily understand the words "Rogue" and "Axis of evil". US President Bush of Texan pretended as if he was a sheriff of old Western movies. Considering that he was the strongest leader in the world, his speech looked like thoughtless. But it was enough for American people. It is quite the same as ex-President Donald Trump. Anyway, for the ordinary US citizens, United States was the sheriff of the world who kept the justice of God and punished evil.

 

President Bush's strategy was named Bush Doctrine. The principle of the doctrine was to confront the "rogue state" that could spread terrorism and mass destruction weapons. And the doctrine embodied to do the first-strike for self-defense. He declared that all the countries should be either on the US side or on the terror’s side.

 

He adhered the Neo conservatism prevailing in the modern American society. The advocators of Neoconservatism (so called Neocon) was a policy group related to the theory of political scientist Francis Fukuyama who was the author of “The End of History and the Last Man”. In the Afghan War Neocon joined hands with Islamic power to fight against USSR. During the Iran-Iraq war US supported even Hussein of Iraqi Sunni regime to defeat Shiites Iran.

 

(To be continued ----)

 

 

Areha Kazuya

(From an ordinary citizen in the cloud)