As 2005 nears, the state of the world is such that desperation shadows the lives of hundreds of millions of people, yet most of them yearn for the security, freedom, and goods that citizens of affluent democracies enjoy.

Keywords:
United States, Al, Qaeda, European, Union, Latin, America, nuclear, Africa, China
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