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America’s Will To Lead
Recorded on October 20, 2016
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the thirty-ninth prime minister of Denmark (2000–2009) and the twelfth secretary general of NATO (2009–14), joins Peter Robinson to discuss why America is the only proper policeman for the world. He argues that America’s failure to act, especially in cases like Syria, can lead to more harm than intervention. He determines that the problems the United States faced in the Iraq after the war were not because the United States intervened in the first place but because President Obama decided to pull the troops out too early in 2011. He also argues that NATO allies have begun spending closer to the requisite 2 percent of their budgets on defense due to Russia’s encroaching on Ukraine. Rasmussen believes it would be dangerous for America to allow Putin to disrupt the international order and retake lost territory without a response.
Rasmussen shares his personal assessments of leaders he has come to know personally, including George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin. Additionally, Rasmussen offers a bold plan for a strengthened American and European alliance, joined by like-minded democracies (not the UN), to create a military, political, and economic bulwark against the forces of tyranny. Rasmussen argues that
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Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s Opening Address to the Folketing (The Danish Parliament) on Tuesday 3 October 2006
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On 11 September 2001, four planes in the USA were hijacked by 19 terrorists. Thousands of innocent people were killed. And since that day, the World has not been the same.
Over the past five years, it has become clear that we are in the middle of a global struggle of values. It is not a struggle of values between cultures or religions. It is a struggle of values between enlightened reason and the darkness of fundamentalism. Between democracy and dictatorship. Between freedom and tyranny.
In this struggle, there is no neutral position. We must make active efforts to support freedom and democracy.
We must guard our fundamental freedoms. Guard the right we have to make our own choice about the way we want to lead our lives. Guard the right to freedom of speech, the most important of all civil liberties.
It is important that we fully comprehend the nature of the forces of extremism that we are up against, that we do not compromise our values in a misguided attempt to placate or adapt.
When it comes to freedom and democracy, we cannot and must not accept any compromise.
Any human being, as well as any people, has the right to freed
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