Just in case you need reminding how much truth there is in the phrase "Axis of Evil", the second-ranking Islamic clergyman in Iran has recommended a nuclear attack on Israel. Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani notes approvingly that atomic bombs would utterly destroy Israel but the Muslim world would suffer "only damages" in response.
"Jews shall expect to be once again scattered and wandering around the globe the day when this appendix is extracted from the region and the Muslim world", quoth this far-seeing statesman who neglected to mention that any nuclear attack on Israel would almost certainly also wipe out the Palestinians of the region.
Joining the Iranians in emitting threats of atomic Armageddon are their Axis partners the North Koreans. The red-breasted Stalinist loons of Pyongyang have resumed their development of nuclear weapons and have threatened to turn American cities into "a sea of ashes" but in a crystalline example of Freudian transference have accused the USA of belligerence and aggression.
Posted by at March 12, 2003 07:21 PM