A U.S. Presidential Commission on World Hunger (composed of Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals) repeated this warning:

"The most potentially explosive force in the world today is the frustrated desire of poor people to obtain a decent standard of living...The Commission believes that promoting economic development in general, and overcoming hunger in particular, are tasks far more critical to U.S. national securitythan most policy makers acknowledge or even believe. Since the advent of nuclear weapons, most Americans have been conditioned to equate national security with the strength of strategic military forces. The Commission consideers this prevailing belief to be a simplistic illusion."

Stephen Coats - "Hunger, Security and U.S. Foreign Policy"
as quoted in Rich Christians In an Age of Hunger