Summary:
We hear it all the time: the evil empire, the axis of evil,
the big Satan, the little Satan. How many times have we heard and read that
Iran is the most evil regime in the history of humanity. Where does all this “evil/satan”
language come from? What I would suggest is that this is age-old and deeply
ingrained mythic language, which is designed mainly to instill fear, but which
truly has no role to play in a rational foreign policy.
