Are those included in the listings of the US actual enemies of humanity or plainly enemies of the US because she the said so.
Vilification and demonization of their enemies
are among the weapons of the fascist states. Nations who does not conform or
align themselves the foreign policies of the fascist state are tagged as Axis
of Evil, Outposts of Tyranny, and Axis of Terror.
Axis of evil is a term initially
used by the former United States President George W. Bush in his State
of the Union Address on January 29, 2002,
and often repeated throughout his
presidency, describing governments that he accused of helping terrorism and seeking weapons
of mass destruction. Iran, Iraq and North Korea were portrayed by George W. Bush during the State of the
Union as building nuclear weapons. The Axis of Evil
was used to pinpoint these common enemies of the United States and ally the
country in support of the war on terror. The term has stirred controversy, as
it is believed that Iraq did not actually possess any weapons of mass
destruction at the time of this speech or anytime afterwards.
It is very strange that the state who introduced and still keep a large
arsenal of nuclear weapons and actually used it more than once against another
state in an act of war would accuse others who are suspected or have actual
possesion of such weapons. The US first used it against Japan in WWII, used it
in the recent Balkan Wars (in form of the so-called “impoverished” nuclear
devices or bombs) and is still in a position to use it in any form against any
other state it consider as “enemy”. Using the definition, it would be noted
that since the US is keeping the largest arsenal of weapons of mass
destruction, they are to be considered as the biggest terrorist state in the
world.
Rogue state is a controversial term applied by some
international theorists to states they consider threatening to the world's
peace. North
Korea, Cuba, Iraq, Iran and Libya. In theory, at least,
to be classified as a rogue, a state had to commit four transgressions: pursue
weapons of mass destruction, support terrorism, severely abuse its own
citizens, and stridently criticize the United States. While four of the listed rogue states
met all these transgressions, Cuba, though still suspected for severely
abusing its citizens and its strident criticism of the United States. As
early as July 1985, President Reagan had asserted that "we are not going
to tolerate … attacks from outlaw states by the strangest collection of
misfits, loony tunes, and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third
Reich," but it fell to the Clinton administration to elaborate this concept.
The US openly and covertly engaged in the subversion of foreign states. The
Central Intelligence Agency supported a variety of overt actions designed to
depose Saddam Hussein, while Congress approved the Iraq Liberation Act in 1998
aimed at providing Iraqi opposition groups with increased financial assistance. Several leading Republicans who would
occupy high positions in the George W. Bush administration publicly urged
President Clinton in February 1998 to recognize the Iraqi National Congress
(INC) as the provisional government of Iraq. Some of these critics,
including Paul Wolfowitz and Robert Zoellick, hinted that U.S. ground forces
might ultimately (and proved to be correct) be required to help the INC oust
Saddam. In all of these anti-rogue efforts, however, Washington found it
exceedingly difficult to persuade other nations (with the partial exception of
Britain) to support its policies of ostracism and punishment
During the Korean war, the US Gen. Douglas McArthur has even recommended
using nuclear bombs against North Korea and China, and annihilated 20%
non-combatants in North Korea. This acts conforms to the first and second ‘transgressions’
mentioned above. Criticisms of the US foreign policies are non conformation by
another state and does not constitue a crime against humanity, but genocide is.
Condoleezza
Rice, President George W Bush's nominee as secretary of state, has identified
"outposts of tyranny" where the US must help bring freedom. They are Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Zimbabwe, Burma and Belarus.
The term has been compared to President George W. Bush's
phrase, "axis of evil," but the concepts are not identical.
"Axis of evil" refers to countries alleged to be developing weapons of mass destruction as well as sponsoring terrorism, while
"outposts of tyranny" refers to a country's internal political
system. The State Department has not used the term "outposts
of tyranny" officially.
There is an overlap
with the given examples of "outposts of tyranny" and the State Department list of state sponsors of terrorism,
which also includes Cuba, Iran, and North Korea but in which Syria and Sudan appear rather than Burma, Belarus, and
Zimbabwe. All of these countries are criticized in the annual U.S. human rights
reports. It is very remarkable that the Philippines (a client state of the US
and an avid copier of the US policies) was not included in the list. If at all,
no critic of the Philippine regime could walk in any street in any city or
village without fear of being ‘erased or salvaged’ by a death squad, or
kidnapped and no to seen again, illegally arrested and tortured, as what happened
to thousands of activists and critics of any reigning regime in the country.
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