Excerpt from "Bush blunder shows it's time for dissent," by Robert Kuttner, co-editor of The American Prospect. This article appeared in the Boston Globe on February 13, 2002:

... By lumping Iraq, Iran, and North Korea together with Al Qaeda as an "axis of evil," Bush has managed to create an equally improbable axis of worry about America's reliability if not our sanity.

... Not only has Bush set back the process of detente in Korea; he has done something the ayatollahs were unable to do -- given new life to the anti-American hard-liners in Iran.

 
Read the Full Article on the American Prospect website. Also available on the Boston Globe website (pay article).