Axis Of Evil Is Real

In his state of the union address in 2002 President Bush named a new axis of evil. He included North Korea, Iraq, and Iran in that axis. He was immediately vilified by the press and the far left politicians. How could he possibly suggest these nations as evil or to focus on those 3 little nations. Well, ever since January 2002 the primary trouble-makers in the world have been those three nations! Then in the 2004 presidential campaign Sen. Kerry and other far left politicians suggested that the U.S. should build some kind of coalition of nations to diplomatically engage these rogue states. (No one has ever come back and apologized to President Bush for mocking him and deriding him about naming those three nations as the primary trouble-makers in the world ... yet everyone now acknowledges that reality and even uses Bush's terminology ... without apology!) So, now that President Bush has engaged the U.N. and a five nation coalition to try and diplomatically resolve the WMD issues with Iran and N. Korea, he is being vilified by the MSM (main-stream media) and far left politicians for not sitting down one-on-one and negotiating a settlement. In the minds (apparently very small ones) of his critics President Bush is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't!
Kim Jong Il and the Islamic fascist state of Iran have shown in recent history (past 25 years) that they are not interested in negotiation except to deceive the West and delay punitive action until they can achieve their goals. Former President Carter on behalf of (at the time) President Clinton, negotiated the wonderful agreement that saved the world from N. Korea developing nukes. That was until we found out that K.J. Il was lying to the world! The Islamo-fascist leaders of Iran are still telling the world that they only want nuclear power, not the bomb. Yet everyone knows that both of these nations (the remaining axis of evil) want to facilitate terrorists, and spread their nuclear know-how to others who will use it to destroy us.
The recent test by N. Korea of their bomb was fortunately a complete DUD - just like their long range missile earlier. "South Korean and U.S. estimates place [the bomb test] at roughly half a kiloton. This means the test probably was a dud, said Jeffrey Lewis, director of the Managing the Atom project at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. "A plutonium device should produce a yield in the range of 20 kilotons, like the one we dropped on Nagasaki," Mr. Lewis wrote on the Defensetech Web site Monday. "No one has ever dudded their first test of a simple fission device. North Korean nuclear scientists are now officially the worst ever."" So we still have some time. Hopefully our "partners" can cut off enough aid and funding to keep KJI from being successful.
Let us hope that future American presidents will see that certain parts of the world around us are truly at war with us, and want to destroy us. We can ill afford to be led by those whose only method is appeasement.