Posted on 09/24/2012 5:29:04 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
President Barack Obama will tell world leaders the United States "will never retreat from the world" when he speaks at the UN General Assembly, the White House said on Monday, UPI reported.
Spokesman Jay Carney told reporters Obama will offer context to the international situation and put forward a vision of U.S. leadership.
“He will also send a clear message that the United States will never retreat from the world,” Carney said, according to UPI. "The United States will bring justice to those who harm Americans and the United States will stand strongly for our democratic values abroad."
Carney said he expected Obama to address the recent unrest in the Muslim world over a U.S.-made anti-Islam video, and "the broader context of democratic transitions in the Arab world."
Obama’s speech will also address Iran, Carney emphasized.
“We have consistently framed that issue around Iran's profound failure to meet its international obligations with respect to its nuclear programs,” he said. “Therefore, the United Nations General Assembly presents ... another opportunity for him to underscore that Iran must not be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon.”
Obama will speak Tuesday at the opening of the 67th session of the UN General Assembly.
"It's a real moment for the United States to assert its values and its leadership role to make clear where we stand in the midst of this remarkable period of transformation in the Arab world," said Carney, "[and] how U.S. leadership, combined with the leadership of other nations, is helping the peoples of that region overcome decades of tyranny and move towards democratic forms of government
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I may look stupid,but I am not stupid enough to believe that Obama will find the Muslims responsible for our Ambassadors death.
Instead he is looking into sending them the Blind Sheik to make them happy and 54 Gitmo detainees who will be on the front line against us within a week after getting turned loose.
That’s Obama’s idea of Justice.
This clown would be laughable if he weren’t so pathetic.
Shouldn’t that be islamic unrest.
Laughable? Pathetic? People will die because of him. They already have, and recently, too. He’s a joke that isn’t funny. He’s bathos undeserving of pity.
That is why he fits right in with the OIC’s UN and wants to run them down our throat!
Mush
What it will amount to is a presidential endorsement of anyone else but obama.
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