Obama urges Britain, U.S. ‘to meet the demands of a new era’

I just love when this President goes out of the country. He is treated with such respect and honor. He speaks from the heart and he does his best to represent this country well. Thank you again Mr. President for a job well done. He knows that there is much work to be done and that we cannot do it alone.

President Obama on Wednesday called for a new chapter in the long partnership between the United States and Great Britain, saying that global economic, military and climate challenges require “remaking ourselves to meet the demands of a new era.”

Even as he argued how much the world has changed since the allies emerged victorious from World War II, Obama told a joint session of Parliament that U.S.-British cooperation — in military, diplomatic, economic and humanitarian efforts — remains a cornerstone of global security.

“As new threats spread across borders and oceans, we must dismantle terrorist networks and stop the spread of nuclear weapons; confront climate change and combat famine and disease,” Obama said. “And as a revolution races through the streets of the Middle East and North Africa, the entire world has a stake in the aspirations of a generation that longs to determine its own destiny.”

Obama’s speech was intended to celebrate the military partnership between the United States and Great Britain, who together have waged war in three Muslim nations over the past decade, and at the same time to reassure a European audience that the heavy cost of those efforts has been essential.

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