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War Must Be Stopped--Here!
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And, the United States must put its shoulder to that wheel. We must take Donald Rumsfeld, and give him a new set of dentures, and stop the crazy things he's saying! We need Europe, but Europe is not capable of solving this problem. It's capable of providing a key element of the solution to the problem, if we, from here, provide the other side. The countries of Asia can not solve this problem, none of them! Nor all together. But, they're crucial to solving the problem. We must solve the problem, by adding the critical factor from here. We must give new meaning to the role of leadership of the United States. We must become a world leader, in the sense that I've indicated, here today; not by force (though I would not be a President you would want to take on, from any other country). But, on the basis of having a sense of mission, of how we're going to reorganize this planet, as a system of cooperation among perfectly sovereign nation-states.
We are going to transform the world! As a mission. We are going to have a 25-year, 50-year forward perspective of what the world should look like. And we're going to work to those ends, with long-term programs and cooperation. We can do it! My job is to get the Americans, themselves, especially those associated with the institutions of the Presidency, the ones who are the doers of anything coming out of the Executive Branch, and elements of the parties in Congress, into a united force, for a new expression of what the United States was born to be. We are not to dominate the world. We are to say, “Come! The United States takes this position and invites you to come. Let's get this thing straightened out.” We are, de facto, the world empire, the world imperial authority. Let's say, “Let's get rid of this imperial business. Come join the organization. We'll do it jointly.”
My problem is, getting these people to understand that. And I require your help, to help me to convince them to do it. I'm telling you: If enough in the Congress, in the parties, in the institution of the Presidency, agree with me, I don't care if it's Humpty Dumpty in the White House--we'll get the job done.
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