The threats to our longterm security and wellbeing no longer derive primarily from the immediate risk of military aggression directed at us or our closest allies. Rather. they arise from the corrosive effects of international scourges from which we cannot isolate ourselves and whose prolonged impact is no less dangerous for being less dramatic. A partial list would include the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the Third World. international narcotics trafficking. terrorism. rising economic nationalism. and massive population movements of refugees and illegal migrants. Each of these problems has and will affect our longterm economic prosperity. social fabric. and security. And each is created or aggravated by upheavals and armed strife abroad which displace people. destroy economies. and break down law and order.
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