I will further point out that "Axis of Evil" which was made up by the Bush Administration, is stupid. An axis is: "a real or imaginary straight line going through the center of an object that is spinning, or a line that divides a symmetrical shape into two equal halves: The earth revolves around the axis that joins the North and South Poles. The diameter of a circle is also an axis."
Calling Germany and Japan "the Axis powers" in WWII made sense. Calling three nations an axis is just dumb.