As we learned so painfully on 9/11, terror cannot be contained by borders nor safely provided by oceans alone. Last week we were reminded of this threat once again when terrorists took the lives of six Americans among nearly 200 hundred victims in Mumbai. In the world we seek, there is no place for those who kill innocent civilians to advance hateful extremism.
Obama emphasizes the global nature of terrorism and the need for a strong response following the attacks in Mumbai.
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I think when you understand the complexities of America and the contradictions of America, I don’t think it makes you love it less. I think it makes you love it more.
Every president here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold the values that John McCain and Mitt Romney believed in no less than I did.
We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse…
There’s no doubt that we are going through a period right now of disruption, polarization.
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