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What Makes a Nation Evil?
by
Jacob G. Hornberger,
February 2002
With President Bush's characterization of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea as an
“axis of evil,” an obvious question arises: What makes a nation evil? Is it
the evil nature of the ruler in a nation? Or is it the evil nature of the
government itself? If it's the government, does that mean that everyone who
works for the government of an evil nation, including secretaries and
janitors, is evil or only the people in high government positions? Or is it
the people of the nation that make it evil? And if it's the people of the
nation, would that mean that all Iranians, Iraqis, and North Koreans are
evil or just some of them? The other obvious question, of course, is: If the
governments of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea begin doing the bidding of the
U.S. government, as the Pakistani government (former supporter of
the Taliban) is doing, would that automatically convert Bush's “axis of
evil” into three good and virtuous nations?
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