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At the dawn of America’s forever wars, President George W. Bush and his speechwriter David Frum teamed up to create a meaningless, hyperbolic phrase that lumped together Iran, Iraq, and North Korea, setting the stage for two decades of foreign policy fallout.
“States like these and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world,” read more