Thread: Obama's getting it done son!

Just wondering - what do you think about this statement?

That quote is taken out of context all the time. He is referring to the responsibilities we all have as global citizens. Achieving peace and security depends on more than just sending our military off to other countries to kill people:

“We’re going to grow our Foreign Service, open consulates that have been shuttered and double the size of the Peace Corps by 2011 to renew our diplomacy,” Obama told the Colorado audience.

“We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded,” he said.

Just five days later, the July 7 issue of Defense News published an interview in which Obama elaborated on his goals.

“I believe we can reconfigure our civilian national-security force. We still have a national security apparatus on the civilian side, in the way the State Department is structured and USAID, that harkens back to the Cold War,” Obama said.

“We need to be able to deploy teams that combine agricultural specialists and engineers and linguists and cultural specialists who are prepared to go into some of the most dangerous areas alongside our military,” he said.

thanks for that!
It was bothering me that it was only 20 seconds
(and obviously out of context)

I'm still not liking that guy too much, but surely we'll see soon.

I'm not the biggest Obama fan, either. However, I have been impressed by several things he's done. I hope he keeps it up.

History will prove him right or wrong, but I think he's got virtuous intentions at least, which is more than can be said for the last administration.