Doug Casey on George W. Bush's war on terror

It’s a pity that Bush, when he was in office, made such a big deal of evil.  He discredited the concept.  He made Boobus americanus think it only existed in a distant axis, in places like North Korea, Iraq and Iran, which were and still are irrelevant backwaters and arbitrarily chosen enemies.  Bush trivialized the concept of evil and made it seem banal because he was such a fool.  All the while, real evil, very immediate and powerful, was growing right around him, and he lacked the awareness to see he was fertilizing it by turning the U.S. into a national security state after 9/11.

~ Doug Casey, "The Ascendance of Sociopaths in U.S. Governance," International Man, April 28, 2021