(Community Matters) GW’s administration and Condolezza Rice shouldn’t get kudos for finally recognizing that we are most threatened by weak and failed states or that diplomacy promotes peace better than war. They should have known the value of stabilizing local governments and implementing development projects.
On Jan 18, 2006, Condolezza Rice delivered a policy address at Georgetown University in which she argued that the fundamental threats now come from weak and failed states, not enemy powers.
In this new world, she continued, it is impossible to draw neat lines between security, democratization and development efforts. She called for a transformational diplomacy, in which State Department employees would do less negotiating and communique-writing. Instead, they’d be out in towns and villages doing broad campaign planning with military colleagues, strenghtening local governments and implementing development projects.
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