On January 22, 2002 in his first State of the Union Address, President George Bush famously referred to the Axis of Evil
States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger. They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred. They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States. In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.
Four years earlier, in the fall of 1998 on the campus of Harvard University, two graduate students began exchanging political ideas and critiques. Over the next decade, they observed that the price of American indifference to its foreign policy and its political leadership was indeed catastrophic. Their exchanges evolved into a blog called the Axis of Reason.
Axis of Reason seeks more competent political leadership from both political parties and more humble and pragmatic American foreign and domestic policy.
Despite my hatred of the current GOP, which is both intolerant and negative (because of the absence of ideas), I am totally FOR a strong two-party system. It’s just that right now that’s not working: the Dems vs. the Repugs is an unbalanced equation. The Right is on an intolerant march because they hate that they lost to a smart black man and the Dems don’t have a cohesive enough party to pull off the change we voted for. I look forward to your blogs.