The Axis Of Evil As Myth

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English

 

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John V

 

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August 13, 2013

 

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They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred” (http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/01/print/20020129-11.html). This term is reminiscent of the Axis powers in World War II of Germany, Italy, and Japan. The term "axis of evil" invokes a mythology because it tells people to view these nations and their leaders in terms of heroes and villains, good and evil, and apocalypse...
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On the flip side, the language of jihad - Islamic holy war - does the same thing. Bush's use of the term evil is explicitly using the language of Christianity to describe the enemy. The idea of good and evil leads to the embodiment of those concepts in heroes and villains. According to Richard Slotkin (2004), the reference to World War II in the phrase "axis of evil" potentially frames Bush's actions as heroic: "Depending on circumstances, the president's defiance of Allied opinion and American critics of his policies could be seen as analogous to Winston Churchill's heroic and prophetic stand against appeasement between 1936 and 1940...
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