failed state anyone?

Okay now. Someone help me out here because I made the mistake of mixing alcohol with Giuliani's speech at the RNC. No, I didn't have a seizure, but I swear I heard him expand upon the warbird neo-con doctrine of "pre-emptive strike." Did he really say that the greatest threat to US security is the "failed state." How do we define "failed state"? He was refering to Iraq, but he need not look farther than home where our sitting president was installed in one of the most corrupt elections in recent history - a foreboding tremor along the fault line we call representative government.

So was it just me and one too many Miller High Lifes or are the Republican intellegentsia taking that next step closer to policing thought-crime?