Editing Axis of evil (section)

===Yossef Bodansky===
A decade before the 2002 State of the Union address, in August 1992, the Israeli-American political scientist [[Yossef Bodansky]] wrote a paper entitled "[[Tehran]], [[Baghdad]] & [[Damascus]]: The New Axis Pact"<ref name="horrigan-august">{{cite web
|url=https://fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bod4.htm|author=Yossef Bodansky & Vaughn S. Forrest on behalf of the House Republican Research Committee|title=Tehran, Baghdad & Damascus: The New Axis Pact|date=August 10, 1992|access-date=May 22, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070610160021/https://fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bod4.htm |archive-date=June 10, 2007 |url-status=live}}</ref> while serving as the Director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare of the [[US House of Representatives]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rapoza |first=Kenneth |title=On Syria, Putin Becomes 'Man Of Reason' |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2013/09/12/on-syria-putin-becomes-man-of-reason/ |access-date=August 20, 2024 |website=Forbes |language=en |archive-date=August 21, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240821065024/https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2013/09/12/on-syria-putin-becomes-man-of-reason/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Although he did not explicitly apply the epithet ''evil'' to his New Axis, Bodansky's axis was otherwise very reminiscent of Frum's axis. Bodansky felt that this new Axis was a very dangerous development. The gist of Bodansky's argument was that Iran, Iraq and Syria had formed a "tripartite alliance" in the wake of the [[Gulf War|First Gulf War]], and that this alliance posed an imminent threat that could only be dealt with by invading Iraq a second time and overthrowing [[Saddam Hussein]].