Obama to World at United Nations: Bad News. The American Empire Is Dead. Colum Lynch and Ty McCormick - Foreign Policy
go to original September 27, 2013

President Barack Obama's full speech to the United Nations General Assembly' 67th session. (TheDailyConversation)

U.S. President Barack Obama presented world leaders at the United Nations with an image of America as a reluctant superpower, ready to confront Iran's nukes and kill its enemies with targeted drone strikes, but unprepared to embark on open-ended military missions in Syria and other troubled countries. That, he hinted, should give the world cause for anxiety.

"The United States has a hard-earned humility when it comes to our ability to determine events inside other countries," he said in his address before the 193-member General Assembly. "The notion of American empire may be useful propaganda, but it isn't borne out by America's current policy or public opinion."

Obama said that "the recent debate within the United States over Syria clearly showed the danger for the world is not an America that is eager to immerse itself in the affairs of other countries or take on every problem in the region as its own. The danger for the world is that the United States, after a decade of war - rightly concerned about issues back home, aware of the hostility that our engagement in the region has engendered throughout the Muslim world - may disengage, creating a vacuum of leadership that no other nation is ready to fill."

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