Original sentence: Essentially, the story begins in late December 2001 when head speechwriter Michael Gerson gave Frum the assignment of articulating the case for dislodging the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq in only a few sentences for the upcoming State of the Union address.In it he added three more nations to be grouped with the already mentioned rogue states: Cuba, Libya, and Syria.National Security Advisor John Bolton referred to Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua as a "troika of tyranny" in Latin America
Edited sentence: Essentially, the story begins in late December 2001 when head speechwriter Michael Gerson gave Frum the assignment of articulating the case for dislodging the government of Saddam Hussein in Iraq in only a few sentences for the upcoming State of the Union address.In it he added three more nations to be grouped with the already mentioned states: Cuba, Libya, and Syria.National Security Advisor John Bolton, an anti-communist and a "vociferous enemy of the United Nations", referred to Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua as a "troika of tyranny" in Latin America.The term was later used by economist Paul Krugman, arguing that "[t]here's a new axis of evil: Russia, Saudi Arabia — and the United States", as the three countries all declined to endorse the United Nation's latest climate study at the 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference