Nearly three decades have passed since communism's collapse and the
global harmony that many hoped for has been replaced by an
international order more challenging to American leadership and
American ideals than any we have seen in my lifetime. Intolerance, ultra-nationalism, and crude populism are rising across
the developed world and threaten to undo the work of decades. After a
century of American leadership of the international community, there
was a sense among many here at home and around the world that we have
lost our will to lead, that we will no longer honor President Kennedy's
commitment to ``pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship,
support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the
success of liberty.''
The world sees President Trump's executive orders on immigration and
asks: Where is the America that welcomed millions to its shores? Well, I am happy to say that America is alive and well in communities
across this great Nation, where people from every continent live
together, eat each other's food, celebrate each other's holidays, and
it also lives on in the hundreds of State Department officials who
signed a Dissent Channel memorandum opposing that policy. The world sees President Trump's threats to withdraw from Europe and
Asia unless our allies ``pay up,'' and asks whether America will still
defend its friends.
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