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Colin Powell said. "If nations are poor, if they don't see hope, if they're riddled by disease, if no one is helping them, then radicalism takes over.
"They lose faith in democracy, and they start turning in other directions," he added. "This is an investment not only in the welfare of these people, which in and of itself is a good thing to do, it's an investment in our own national security."
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I think this statement is one of the most sensible and usefull ones I've heard all year - and shows Colin Powell to be an intelligent and measured statesman.