Barack
Obama to urge UN to confront roots of Muslim rage
Sep 25, 6:05 AM (ET)By BEN FELLER
NEW YORK (AP) - Campaign politics shadowing every word, President Barack Obama on Tuesday will challenge the world to confront the root causes of rage exploding across the Muslim world, calling it a defining choice "between the forces that would drive us apart and the hopes we hold in common."
Sep 25, 6:05 AM (ET)By BEN FELLER
NEW YORK (AP) - Campaign politics shadowing every word, President Barack Obama on Tuesday will challenge the world to confront the root causes of rage exploding across the Muslim world, calling it a defining choice "between the forces that would drive us apart and the hopes we hold in common."
Obama will step before the United Nations General Assembly and declare
that the United States will not shrink from its role in troubled,
transitioning nations despite the killing of four Americans in Libya,
including U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens, and more than 50 people total
in violence linked at least in part to an anti-Muslim film.
Obama will also to seek to show U.S. resolve in preventing Iran from
developing a nuclear weapon, a menacing issue that has undermined White
House relations with Israel's leadership.
In his final international address before the November election, Obama
will stand up for democratic values on a stage afforded to presidents,
not presidential challengers. He will use it to try to boost his
political standing without ever mentioning Republican opponent Mitt
Romney.
Were
there any doubt that the U.S. presidential campaign hung heavy over
Obama's speech, Romney shredded it by assailing Obama's foreign affairs
leadership on the eve of the president's speech. Now comes Obama's
chance to assert his world vision on his terms.
"Today, we must affirm that our future will be determined by people like
Chris Stevens, and not by his killers," Obama said of the U.S.
ambassador, who was killed during an assault on the U.S. consulate in
Benghazi, Libya, that the White House has deemed a terrorist attack.
"Today, we must declare that this violence and intolerance has no place
among our United Nations."
The White House released excerpts in advance of Obama's midmorning speech.
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