Editing Rogue state (section)

=== Later terms ===
In the aftermath of the [[September 11 attacks]], the [[George W. Bush administration|Bush administration]] returned to using a similar term. The concept of ''rogue states'' was replaced by the Bush administration with the concept of an ''[[Axis of Evil]]'', which encompassed [[Ba'athist Iraq|Iraq]], [[Iran]], and [[North Korea]]. U.S. President [[George W. Bush]] first spoke of this "Axis of Evil" during his January 2002 [[State of the Union Address]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/transcripts/sou012902.htm | newspaper=The Washington Post | title=Text of President Bush's 2002 State of the Union Address}}</ref> More terms, such as ''[[Outposts of Tyranny]]'', would follow suit.<ref>{{cite news|title=At-a-glance: 'Outposts of tyranny'
|work=BBC News|date=19 January 2005|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4187361.stm}}</ref>

Because the U.S. government remains the most active proponent of the expression ''rogue state'', the term has received much criticism from those who disagree with [[Foreign relations of the United States|American foreign policy]]. Both the concepts of ''rogue states'' and the ''Axis of Evil'' have been criticized by scholars, including philosopher [[Jacques Derrida]] and linguist [[Noam Chomsky]], who considered it more or less a justification of [[imperialism]] and a useful word for [[propaganda]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/books/review/25freedland.html | work=The New York Times | first=Jonathan | last=Freedland | title=Homeland Insecurity | date=25 June 2006}}</ref> Some critics charge that ''rogue state'' merely means any state that is generally hostile to the U.S., or even one that opposes the U.S. without necessarily posing a wider threat.<ref>[http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/12/1076548157407.html?from=storyrhs Pakistan, a rogue state unpunished], Sydney Morning Herald, 13 February 2004</ref><ref>[http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2004/571/571p12.htm PAKISTAN: How Washington helped create a nuclear 'rogue state'] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060826122120/http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2004/571/571p12.htm |date=26 August 2006 }}, Green left online, 17 November 1993</ref> Others, such as author [[William Blum]], argued that the term is also applicable to the U.S. and [[Israel]]. In his ''[[Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower]]'', Blum claimed that the United States defines itself as a rogue state through its foreign policy.{{Page needed|date=February 2018}}