Our country’s economic health and security are inextricably linked to the prosperity and security of the rest of the world. The current economic crisis brings with it a strong temptation to turn inward and focus on the pain we are experiencing here at home. But pulling back from global engagement is not an option. Stability and prosperity go hand in hand, and neither is possible in the presence of widespread and extreme poverty…We have a responsibility to use our foreign aid dollars as effectively as possible.
- Former Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed
Posted by Mary Stata 
