Quote of the Day: Why Was Iran Named in Bush’s Axis of Evil?

Washington included Iran in the axis of evil because Iran had the audacity, and to Washington the impudence and gall, to have a revolution that threw out Washington’s hand-picked ruler of Iran. Iran defied Washington. It sought to be its own power and to have its independence. It withdrew from Washington’s orbit of control. Iran sought to have its own policies. It was Iran’s defiance that Bush could not forget or forgive, because that was a direct challenge to the boss of all bosses, to the number one man. Washington’s the top dog and it has to show it’s the top dog. It can’t let some upstart country challenge it. And in the years following its 1979 revolution, Iran mounted some definite challenges to Washington’s blueprint for it and for the Middle East.

Every item in the Frontline list, be it real or imagined, important or unimportant in and of itself, represents a challenge to Washington’s power and view of the world. Every item is therefore an act of defiance as Washington sees and experiences it. This is why Bush included Iran in his axis of evil.

Washington hates defiance. This explains much of its behavior such as with respect to Assange, Manning, Snowden, whistleblowers, journalists, and others.

This is from retired finance and economic professor Michael S. Rozeff at the Lew Rockwell Blog