What is most disturbing about Bush is his vision of an all-powerful America which must be able to give orders to all those foreigners and make them do what we say. In the last analyisis, not even North Korea is going to shoot off atomic bombs unless they are attacked. When Bush calls them part of the "axis of evil," people considerably more reasonable than the North Koreans would read that as a statement that he intends to attack them. Certainly when he mentions them in the same breath as Iraq, he gives that impression.

If history has any "lessons" at all, it is that a nation that aspires to be all-powerful will be brought low. And certainly, that the people living in such a nation can expect to be made extremely miserable. And that power tends to corrupt, so that in essence, Bush's vision is in fact evil.

By the way, lets not forget the name of the man that brought all this on us. His name is Ralph Nader.