Llewellyn D. Howell

Llewellyn D. Howell argues in the following viewpoint that contrary to President George W. Bush’s claims, Iran, Iraq, and North Korea do not constitute an “axis of evil.” Countering assertions Bush made in his 2002 State of the Union Address, delivered just four months after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on America, Howell claims that these nations are not working together to provide terrorists with weapons of mass destruction that could be used against the United States. Indeed, Howell claims, to focus on these nations is to ignore the real threat to America’s security: terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda, the group responsible for the September 11 attacks. Howell, International Affairs Editor of USA Today, is director of executive MBA programs, College of Business Administration, University of...