If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.

Our … goal is to prevent regimes that sponsor terror from threatening America or our friends and allies with weapons of mass destruction. Some of these regimes have been pretty quiet since September the 11th. But we know their true nature. North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens…. States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.

The modern imperialists are pursuing a more crafty policy of aggression and war, styling themselves a guardian of peace and freedom. Its good example is the slogan of anti-terrorism put up by the U.S. This nature of modern imperialism also finds a manifestation in the fact that it seeks to launch an undisguised armed invasion of those progressive and anti-imperialist independent countries.