So, Bush accomplished his objectives: denounce state sponsors of terror, and isolate them from their people and the global community with a sound-byte that has resonated around the world, "axis of evil".
The Root Cause is applied to everything by the "Do-Gooders". People are starving in Africa because of the West. Why? Because the West is too prosperous and doesn't share the wealth.
Why is it that so much of the world's greatest social and political problems can be found in the nations where fundamentalist Islam, or ethnocentric nationalism is the order of the day?