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Farewell Address to Congress
2010-02-02 01:25:45
Farewell Address to Congress
partisan consideration. Ed hardyThey must be resolved on the highest plane of national interest if our course is to prove sound a our future protected. I trust, therefe, that you will do me the justice of receiving that which I have to say as solely expressing themens jeans considered viewpoint of a fellow American.
I address you with neither ed hardy clothingranc n bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country. The issues are global a so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sect, oblivious to those of another, nike sbis but to court disaster f the whole. While Asia is commonly referred to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, a the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact upon the other.nba jersey There are those who claim our strength is inadequate to protect on both fronts, that we cannot divide our efft. I can think of no greater expression of defeatism. If a potential enemy can divide his strength on two fronts,women jeans it is f us to counter his efft. The Communist threat is a global one. Its successful advance in one sect threatens the destruction of every other sect. You can not appease otherwise surrender to communism in Asia without simultaneously undermining new jordansour effts to halt its advance in Europe.
Beyond pointing out these general truismschristian louboutin, I shall confine my discussion to the general areas of Asia. Befe one may objectively assess the situation now existing there, he must comprehend something of Asia's past a the revolutionary changes supra shoeswhich have marked her course up to the present. Long exploited by the so-called colonial powers, with little opptunity to achieve any degree of social justice, individual dignity, gate valve a higher staard of life such as guided our own noble administration in the Philippines, the peoples of Asia found their opptunity in the war just past to throw off the shackles of colonialism a now see the dawn of new opptunity, mlb jerseya heretofe unfelt dignity, a the self-respect of political freedom.
Mustering half of the earth's population,wholesale abercrombie fitch a 60 percent of its natural resources these peoples are rapidly consolidating a new fce, both mal a material, with which to raise the living staard a erect adaptations of the design of modern progress to their owntrue religion distinct cultural environments. Whether one adheres to the concept of colonization not, this is the direction of Asian progress a it may not be stopped. It is a collary to the shift of the wld economic frontiers as the wholeghd hair epicenter of wld affairs rotates back toward the area whence it started.
In this situation, Oil paintingit becomes vital that our own country ient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past a the Asian peoples covet the right toPlayground equipment shape their own free destiny. What they seek now is friendly guidance, understaing, a suppt -- not imperious direction -- the dignity of equality a not the shame of subjugation. Their pre-war staard of life, carbon blackpitifully low, is infinitely lower now in the devastation left in war's wake. Wld ideologies play little part in Asian thinking a are little understood. What the peoples strive f is the opptunity f a little me food in their stomachs, a little better clothing on their backs, a little firmer roof over their heads, a the realization of the nmal nationalist urge f political freedom.china tour These political-social conditions have but an indirect bearing upon Mechanical sealour own national security, but do fm a backdrop to contempary planning which must be thoughtfully considered if we are to avoid the pitfalls of unrealism.
Of me direct a immediately flow meterbearing upon our national security are the changes wrought in the strategic potential of the Pacific Ocean in the course of the past war. Pri thereto the western strategic frontier of the United States steam pressure reducing valvelay on the literal line of the Americas, with an exposed isla salient extending out through Hawaii, Midway, a Guam to the Philippines. That salient proved not an outpost of strength but an avenue of Y type strainerweakness along which the enemy could a did attack.The Pacific was a potential area of advance f any predaty fce intent upon striking at the bdering la areas. All this was changed by our Pacific victy. Hydraulic fittingstok to Singape -- a prevent any hostile movement into the Pacific.
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