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Article: 'An axis of evil'; The world according to George Bush.(OPED)
- Article from:
- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- February 6, 2002
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Byline: Helle Dale, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Until very recently, the absolutes of good and evil had fallen much out of favor in our relativistic age. These are concepts that a decadent Western culture had stopped grappling with. It took September 11 and the calculated malice of the al Qaeda terrorists to shake us up, to remind us that while we may think our society has evolved to a state of perfect non-judgmental tolerance, the forces of good and evil persist in shaping the world in which we live. It is a battle in which we can chose to take an active part - or tacitly accept our roles as pawns or victims. As Edmund Burke put it, "The only thing necessary for the ...