It has also destabilized countries in Europe as well as spawned the most virulent form of Islamist extremism yet seen.
3 23 p.m. | Updated The American intelligence community is warning that water shortages could destabilize countries in North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia over the next decade, Steven Lee Myers reports.
OF GLOBAL WATER TENSION The American intelligence community warned in a report that problems with water could destabilize countries in North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia.
Take youth unemployment, which on a massive scale can radically destabilize countries.
All signs point to the fact that the Obama administration is pursuing an extremely dangerous military strategy here, one that is a holdover from the Bush era and could further destabilize countries already reeling from economic and political instability.
And yet, in that shaky, increasingly destabilized country, such an existing arsenal has to qualify as a genuine and growing regional danger.
He said that the war in Iraq unseated Saddam, but it also destroyed the legal underpinnings of Iraqi society, leaving a power vacuum, growing corruption, and a lack of institutions to right the destabilized country.
When you have a destabilized country, you have an economy of war and an economy of peace.
Five days later, Rumsfeld declared, "Any idea that those people should be let loose on any basis at all to leave that country and to go bring terror to other countries and destabilize other countries is unacceptable".
