But instead of mustering the strength needed to confront this new Axis of Evil and a growing number of subordinate countries, Washington has become fractured, demonstrating an unwillingness to "go the distance" in Iraq and showing an inability to respond with a clear foreign policy.
Bush also reissued his warning that the United States will not allow an "axis of evil" made up of "a small number of outlaw regimes" to threaten the world's security with weapons of mass destruction.