At stake is not merely the community we used to be, but also some of the best and most fragile country anywhere.

First challenge: survive as a company - or nonprofit institution - in a country economically weak and politically fragile.

The fragile countries of the eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf will suffer.

The fragile new countries of Eastern Europe pound frantically on the Community's door.

For all of its supposed economic and military power China is actually a very fragile country.

It is a fragile country in a volatile part of the world.

After decades of violence, tourism is a lifeline for this fragile but emerging country.

North Korea is out of those depths, but it's a fragile and hungry country.

That said, Bosnia, like Iraq, is a fragile country whose potential for disintegration along ethnic lines in 1995 was strong.

My guess is that the devil's in the details, regarding that "aid to fragile countries".