“Evil is one of the great mysteries. It’s hard for philosophers to define the good. It may be even more difficult to define the evil.
But Bush uses it as a push-button, to get all the ignorami lined up behind him. The perfect proof of it is his syllogism: 9/11 was evil. Saddam is evil. All evil is connected. Ergo, Iraq.” — Norman Mailer takes on Bush and war on Iraq.