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• Obama speaks about providing a visionary leadership
and the need to renew the US global leadership position
through proper foreign policy, a renewed military along with a
need to confront the proliferation of the nuclear arsenal. The
question of nuclear proliferation is "the most urgent threat
to the security of America and the world."
• "This century's threats are at least as dangerous as
and in some ways more complex than those we have confronted in
the past. They come from weapons that can kill on a mass scale
and from global terrorists who respond to alienation or
perceived injustice with murderous nihilism. They come from
rogue states allied to terrorists and from rising powers that
could challenge both America and the international foundation
of liberal democracy. They come from weak states that cannot
control their territory or provide for their people. And they
come from a warming planet that will spur new diseases, spawn
more devastating natural disasters, and catalyze deadly
conflicts."
• "After Iraq, we may be tempted to turn inward. That
would be a mistake. The American moment is not over, but it
must be seized anew. We must bring the war to a responsible
end and then renew our leadership -- military, diplomatic,
moral -- to confront new threats and capitalize on new
opportunities. America cannot meet this century's challenges
alone; the world cannot meet them without America."
• Barack Obama's most important foreign policy is with
respect to the question of Iraq. Obama envisages a regional
conference involving Iran and Syria as part of the strategy to
find an ultimate solution to the Iraq question.
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