Resolve: Failed nations are a greater threat to the United States than Stable nations.

Resolve: Failed nations are a greater threat to the United States than Stable nations. Definitions: Threat: A communicated intent to cause harm (black law) Failed nation: Utterly incapable of sustaining itself as a member of the international economy. Examples of failed nations Examples include but are not limited to that are close to but have not yet actually failed include but are not limited to Afghanistan Iraq, Somalia, North Korea, various African countries Stable nation: Able or likely to continue or last; firmly established; enduring or permanent (dictionary.com) examples of stable nations China Iran North Korea, Switzerland, Singapore United States United Kingdom Failed states can no longer perform basic functions such as education, security, or governance, usually due to fractious violence or extreme poverty. Within this power vacuum, people fall victim to competing factions and crime, and sometimes the United Nations or neighbouring states intervene to prevent a humanitarian disaster. However, states fail not only because of internal factors. Foreign governments can also knowingly destabilize a state by fuelling ethnic warfare or supporting rebel forces, causing it to collapse. C1: The amount of nuclear weapons stable nations have. Stable nations have quite-a-few nuclear weapons. China has around 100-200 nuclear weapons. France has around 350. Russia has around 12,787. The U.K. has less than 160 deployed nuclear weapons. That is around 13,947 nuclear weapons. In addition, the U.S. has around 9,326 nuclear weapons. In total, that is approximately 23,273 nuclear weapons in the stable nations all according to the 2009 fact sheet published by the Arms Control Association. Normally it would not matter if the countries in the failed nation had nuclear weapons, the only problem is, that the U.S. has been at odds with every county mentioned above. Therefore, they technically have a reason to attack the U.S. if they wanted to. Possession of failed nations. Compare this with the 13865 nuclear weapons held by stable nations (nonexclusive of the United States) Based on this, we see that stable nations are more capable of forming a threat against the United States. C2: stable nations have batter education and test scores then failed nations According to the U.S. Department of Education 2009, report on T.I.M.S.S. 12th graders in 21 countries took standardized test scores in the areas of math and science. The total averages of these tests were a score of 500. The U.S. however, ranked 19 with an average score of 461 in the area of math, and in the area of science the U.S. ranked 16 out of 21 with an average score of 480. The countries of Sweden, Germany, France, and Russia, are just a few of the countries that have better scores than the U.S. This is a threat to the U.S. because: a)A component that defined a failed nation was deterioration of public services, and the school system is a public service. Therefore, if other countries have better education then the U.S. would not that mean that the U.S. public services are deteriorating. C3: 60 million people died from WWII which was primarily between stable nations. Stable nations have a greater ability to access and obtain weapons of mass destruction. Wikipedia: The term failed state is often used by political commentators and journalists to describe a state perceived as having failed at some of the basic conditions and responsibilities of a sovereign government. In order to make this definition more precise, the following attributes, proposed by the Fund for Peace, are often used to characterize a failed state: •loss of physical control of its territory, or of the monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force therein, •erosion of legitimate authority to make collective decisions, •an inability to provide reasonable public services, and •an inability to interact with other states as a full member of the international community. Common characteristics of a failing state include a central government so weak or ineffective that it has little practical control over much of its territory; non-provision of public services; widespread corruption and criminality; refugees and involuntary movement of populations; and sharp economic decline