On Wednesday, September 23, 2009 Obama gave a speech in the White House making sure the entire world knows that America can't fix everything on its own and if years ago it did go alone into everything, this time it will be different. He states that the year 2009 is one of the most important years in the human history where interests of nations and peoples are to be shared. He also mentions how the easiest thing to do is to blame others for our troubles and avoid our responsibility for the choices we made and actions we took.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi went on and on how the U.N Security Council, which of course includes the U.S. was a "terror council" and accused them of treating nations different, such that smaller nations were treated as "second class, despised" as he states. He continues to say that U.S. is rich and powerful, but cannot solve problems without help of others.
Obama spoke of America more modestly and said that America will not behave as if it is better than other nations. His exact words were: "No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation" (Obama). All nations have their rights, but they also have responsibilities and if they want to rise to the top they also must take responsibility for their own actions.
Obama received a few rounds of applause from the people in the meeting, which never happened when the previous president, Bush spoke.
Obama continued to discuss the problems of nuclear programs of North Korea and Iran, the fact that they produced them and are moving really fast, and global warming.
"All of us must decide whether we are serious about peace, or whether we only lend it lip service" (Obama). I think that it would be awesome if there could be world peace, but I think that is one of the issues that it will be very hard to solve and have all the nations in the world agree upon the same. Our classroom of 30 students couldn't agree to all write "Cooperate" on a piece of paper so that each of us can get a point on the midterm, I doubt that the entire world can agree to keep peace just because. As we discussed in class, just because there is an intention it doesn't mean that it will be brought out, plus people's intentions change as their personal interests and their nations interests change.
Obama spoke with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev where they mainly focused on Iran. Obama is afraid that since Russia has great ties with Iran, they may stand in the way as they have done so in the past. Obama hopes that Russia will cooperate.
Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama discussed the importance of their alliance.
By: Vesna Tanasic
Source: Yahoo
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090923/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama/print
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