President Bush has made the objective of his war clear: to rid the world of evil. Unfortunately, exactly how the President intends to accomplish this objective remains unclear. In general, Americans agree with Bush that evil is,...
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President Bush has made the objective of his war clear: to rid the world of evil. Unfortunately, exactly how the President intends to accomplish this objective remains unclear. In general, Americans agree with Bush that evil is, by definition, a bad thing. However, they disagree about what evil is. Some Americnas consider jaywalking a small evil. Others regard George W. Bush himself as an evil man. Does it follow that our commander-in-chief has declared a war against himself? It goes without saying that President Bush is waging a war against what he personally regards to be evil. The question remains: what does he consider to be evil? The President has used his wartime authority to speak about his crusade against evil many times. His comments about evil are listed in the archive below. One would hope that with two and a half months to elucidate his ideas about the enemy evil against which this war is being waged, President Bush would have come up with a clear definition of what exactly he considers evil to be. After all, when one is waging a war, it's a good idea to clearly understand who the enemy is. Unfortunately, Bush's ideas about evil remain cryptic and muddled. He has commented that the hijackers of September 11 were "instruments of evil" who belonged to a "cult of evil" that in some strange dark way feeds "on human suffering." At times, President Bush seems to imply, with references to "the evil one" that he is using the United States military to fight against Satan himself. Such references suggest that the President may regard the current conflict in Biblical, even apolcalyptic terms. Only by studying Bush's own statements about evil can the American public hope to understand what the President truly believes this war to be about. As an entire nation is pulled deeper into the President's crusade, such an understanding will become increasingly vital.
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