----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Sloan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 2:09 PM Subject: Re: Axis of Evil
> "J. van Baardwijk" wrote: > > > Probably because using the term "Axis of Evil" offers the > > suggestion that the governments in question are as evil as > > the Nazis were. It makes it sooo easy to draw that parallel. > > If those articles describing life in North Korea are accurate, > and I can't think of any reason why they wouldn't be, then the > government of North Korea is right up there with the Nazis and > Stalin in terms of evil. It's the "Axis" part I don't like, for > reasons others have already said: they aren't actually *working* > together, and there are several more governments out there that > are just as evil, who weren't mentioned. I have a question about the origional Axis powers. I know that Italy and Germany worked together, but how much actual cooperation was there between Japan and these two countries? My understanding is that there wasn't that much in the way of coordination. Dan M.
