Comparison To Other State Classifications and Political Neologisms
The term has been compared to President George W. Bush's phrase, "axis of evil," but the concepts are not identical. "Axis of evil" refers to countries alleged to be developing weapons of mass destruction as well as sponsoring terrorism, while "outposts of tyranny" refers to a country's internal political system. The State Department has not used the term "outposts of tyranny" officially.
There is an overlap with the given examples of "outposts of tyranny" and the State Department list of state sponsors of terrorism, which also includes Cuba, Iran, and North Korea but in which Syria and Sudan appear rather than Burma, Belarus, and Zimbabwe. All of these countries are criticized in the annual U.S. human rights reports.
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