Don't dance to the tune of Kim and his blackmailing cohorts WHATEVER happened to George W. Bush's Axis of Evil? The answer has become increasingly clear over the past few months: it is still trying to light a fuse under the West. And, shamefully, we still haven't learnt how to deal with rogue states with all their immense destructive potential. Iran, Iraq and North Korea formed the original 2002 Bush axis. It was mocked at the time as comic-strip politics, pitting the Forces of Good against the mullahs, a superhero president against the Joker, aka Saddam Hussein. Nowadays Iraq has lost its full Axis membership and been relegated to the ever-expanding Chaos Club of failed states. Instead Bashar al-Assad's Syria, with its ample stocks of nerve gas, has taken its place.