Security is not achieved primarily by military means.  Military force is - or as
a practical matter ought to be - a last resort for states that seek to enforce
their aims.  A more effective strategy in the long term, one that can evoke
complete reversals over the time span of a generation, is international
development efforts that target education, medicine, and food production and
distribution.  General Anthony Zinni, former chief of the United States Central
Command, has observed that the United States relies too much on its military
when it would be more practical to rely on international development to expand
goodwill towards the United States and to decrease the contention for resources
that so often motivates military conflicts.  By enhancing the ability of the
developing world to feed itself, the bipartisan Global Food Security Act (S.384)
will enhance security for all states and peoples.  I hope that you'll join your
colleague John Kerry in supporting it.