...put by the Bush administration's 2002 national security strategy paper, "America is threatened now less by conquering states than we are by failing ones....technologies in the hands of the embittered few."'' In the emerging polyarchic system, explosions of local and regional violence and military interventions...

...criteria, such as in failing, failed and conflict states. As the National Security Strategy states, "America is now threatened less by conquering states than we are by failing ones." Fully two-thirds of the countries where USAID works have suffered violent conflicts within the last...

...can be allowed to fail. As we currently observe in Iraq and as the National Security Strategy states, "America is now threatened less by conquering states than we are by failing ones." For this compelling reason, we must use all influences available to us to strengthen just governance,...

...criteria, such as in failing, failed and conflict states. As the National Security Strategy states, "America is now threatened less by conquering states than we are by failing ones." Fully two-thirds of the countries where USAID works have suffered violent conflicts within the last...

...all too clear as we meet this morning. As the President has said in the National Security Strategy, "America is now threatened less by conquering states than we are by failing ones." USAID alone provides well over $1 billion every year in humanitarian assistance to deal with crises....

...criteria, such as in failing, (ailed and conflict states. As the National Security Strategy states, "America is now threatened less by conquering states than we are by failing ones." Fully two-thirds of the countries where USAID works have suffered violent conflicts within the last...

...score. As the Bush administration acknowledged in September 2002 in its new national security strategy: "America is now threatened less by conquering states than we are by failing ones."25 But accepting responsibility for Afghanistan opened up a new dimension of global responsibility....

...criteria, such as in failing, failed and conflict states. As the National Security Strategy states, "America is now threatened less by conquering states than we are by tailing ones." Fully two-thirds of the countries where USAID works have suffered violent conflicts...

...acknowledges the rise of non-state threats, notably terrorism.34 The security strategy states: America is threatened less by conquering states than we are by...must defeat these threats to our Nation, allies, and friends.35 The document goes on to describe 'the battle for the future of the Muslim world' as a battle...

...threats before they are fully formed." This is a recipe for preventive war. Changed conditions — "America is now threatened less by conquering states...fleets and armies than by catastrophic technologies" — demand changed tactics: "The greater the threat, the greater is the risk of inaction — and the...