The Middle East Partnership Initiative: Promoting Democratization in a Troubled Region : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, First Session, March 19, 2003, Volume 4 |
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Page 20 - The events of September 11, 2001, taught us that weak states, like Afghanistan, can pose as great a danger to our national interests as strong states. Poverty does not make poor people into terrorists and murderers. Yet poverty, weak institutions, and corruption can make weak states vulnerable to terrorist networks and drug cartels within their borders.
Page 22 - Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee: I welcome the opportunity to appear before the Subcommittee today to discuss the FAA's Operations budget and associated staffing plans for FY 1995.
Page 22 - ... prevent our enemies from threatening us, our allies, and our friends, with weapons of mass destruction; • ignite a new era of global economic growth through free markets and free trade...
Page 7 - I have a number of questions that I would like to ask the Secretary but if the Secretary has not the time I will defer it.
Page 12 - Indyk served as special assistant to the President and senior director for Near East and south Asian affairs at the National Security Council.
Page 25 - Chair recognizes the author of the resolution, the gentleman from New York, Mr. Ackerman. Mr. ACKERMAN. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
Page 1 - When it comes to the common rights and needs of men and women, there is no clash of civilizations. The requirements of freedom apply fully to Africa and Latin America and the entire Islamic world. The peoples of the Islamic nations want and deserve the same freedoms and opportunities as people in every nation. And their governments should listen to their hopes.
Page 20 - ... ignite a new era of global economic growth through free markets and free trade; expand the circle of development by opening societies and building the infrastructure of democracy...
Page 4 - Iraq. The first to benefit from a free Iraq would be the Iraqi people themselves. Today they live in scarcity and fear, under a dictator who has brought them nothing but war, and misery, and torture. Their lives and their freedom matter little to Saddam Hussein — but Iraqi lives and freedom matter greatly to us.
Page 12 - Bureau for Asia and the Near East of the US Agency for International Development by the Irrigation support Project for Asia and the Near East, pp.