Obama Rejects Dr Pangloss. Unfortunately.

From Barack Obama’s speech to the United Nations today:

Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges. If we are honest with ourselves, we need to admit that we are not living up to that responsibility. Consider the course that we are on if we fail to confront the status quo. Extremists sowing terror in pockets of the world. Protracted conflicts that grind on and on. Genocide and mass atrocities. More and more nations with nuclear weapons. Melting ice caps and ravaged populations. Persistent poverty and pandemic disease. I say this not to sow fear, but to state a fact: the magnitude of our challenges has yet to be met by the measure of our action.

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Alexander Larman

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Now is the time for all of us to take our share of the credit for the world we inhabit, a world of relative peace and of unprecedented prosperity.