'Axis of Evil' Making U.S. Allies Nervous

FOX ^ | Wednesday, February 06, 2002 | The Associated Press contributed to this report.

[vannrox]

This partial transcript of Special Report with Brit Hume,

[goodnesswins]

You better study American history a little more....NOT ALL Japanese were interned here in the US during WWII.....some, yes, but not all.....AND, those that were interned LIVED through the war, unlike my husband's Uncle who DIED FIGHTING FOR YOUR COUNTRY!!!!!

[EternalHope]

...that term "axis of evil," and the three nations identified as part of it, are making some of our allies very nervous.

That's because the thought of standing up to bad guys always makes invertebrates nervous.

Knowing these "allies" for what they are, we have already addressed the problem. We will act with or without them.

We do not much care if they are nervous.

[GuillermoX]

Are you saying the people of Iraq, Iran and North Korea don't believe their governments are evil? Their citizens know up front and close how evil they really are...we can only imagine, they live it everyday.

[B-bone]

Mine was an initial kill the messenger response. You are correct.

I couldn't get past my distaste for Kristol to hear what he was actually reporting.

Thank you for the more level-headed correction.

[M. Thatcher]

I share your opinion of the odious Kristol.

[goodnesswins]

go away ..... speaking for the dead who is not a relative of yours is boorish.....

[goodnesswins]

PS....the "Uncle" was married to a Brit, also.

[Mr. Bungle]

"Some would say that it's America's foreign policy that has led to this state of affairs, where others would argue that what we refer to as Western values has caused the problem. I'm open to debate.

Interesting either/or you've set up. Unfortunately, in both cases you voice causality in terms of US/Western agression - and nowhere take into account, a possibility of irrational responses to US policy, or the obvious, barbaric intolerance of those pesky Western Values that so knot the shorts of radical Islamists.

Or, an even more dangerous prospect for fashionable equivocators to ponder: These men who attacked the US actually are evil men. But that's hardly any fun, now, is it?

I don't think that an outbreak of terminal badness caused the attacks in New York

An outbreak afflicting whom? I think terminal badness is precisely what infected the monsters who killed 3,000 people on 9/11, and those who supported that goal. I don't advise you disagree with that.

"But I've yet to hear a truly convincing argument that encompasses all of the facts. "

One agonizes in search of such arguments only after granting a degree of legitimacy to the "grievances" of those terrorists. They deliberately killed thousands of innocent non-combatants. Their reasons for doing so are only relevant to us as they might allow us to predict their actions - to preempt them. Yes, to kill them before they kill more of us.

[M. Thatcher]

You see it as the States against the rest of the planet? You are a damn fool.

Hello? Perhaps you haven't noticed the condemnation that followed President Bush's speech -- from the vaunted courageous and brilliant leadership elites of France, Great Britain, Germany, Ireland, oh, and the EU. And that's just our, ahem, "allies."

Has nothing to do with how I "see it."

Doesn't matter anyway. As I say, their approval, support, or assistance -- or lack of same -- is irrelevent to what we do.

[TrueBrit]

"go away ..... speaking for the dead who is not a relative of yours is boorish....."

Unlike being a freeper, which is a passport to popularity? Pulease..

[Tijeras_Slim]

What a shame, they USED to be a fighting people.

They also used to be able to recognize evil, now they don't even recognize it's existance.

[txhurl]

'McDonald's colonizing...'

Heh heh. Suckers. Amazing how the whole damn fool planet really believes McDonald's is really a restaurant.

Uh, wait. They really are. No, really they are. Really!

(evil grin, in spite of my italo-brit ancestry)

[M. Thatcher]

Oh, the requisite Hitler insult: nature's way of telling you you've lost the argument.

[TrueBrit]

perhaps we don't leap to conclusions?