At the United Nations general assembly, President Obama represented America to give a speech addressing on the current tough relation between America and Arab world. Compared to his DNC speech, it was more public, official, and powerful instead of being personal, enjoyable and passionate.
To be clearer about this speech, we need to know the two background affairs currently happening behind the speech. First, the US ambassador in Syria, Chris Steven and three other US ambassador staff were killed in Syria. Second, the crude anti-Islam video clip by an Egyptian American on YouTube was spread worldwide. These two things were raising the tension between United States and the Arab world and even whole Islam world.
Obama started his speech by talking about the legacy of Chris Stevens and recognized his dedication as the US ambassador to help create a new democracy in Libya. Obama believed Chris Stevens embodies the spirit of America as Obama stated "the future of America is determined by people like Chris Stevens and not his Killers". Obama said Chris Stevens stood up for a set of principles; these principles were the freedom to determine your own destiny, and live a life of liberty, dignity, justice, and opportunity.
Obama said the attacks on Benghazi was not just a attack on them, but a attack on America as well. Also, the attacks affected the United Nations as well. Obama pointed out that the attackers assaulted the very foundation which the United Nations was founded upon. Obama said that the United Nations stands for non-violence furthermore showing that there was no need for war and any problems can be solved through peaceful actions.
Obama used part of his speech to apologize to the Muslims who had been offended by the anti-Islam video. Obama mostly did not want more chaos and he wanted to calm everyone down showing that there was no need for war. Obama also wanted to assure the Islamic world that the video had nothing to do with the American Government and to show it had not been their intention to send such a rude video. Obama showed that the best weapon against speech was not violence, but more speech.
President Obama acted as the representative for the US, he showed his powerful side as a leader. He raised his strong voice when he was blaming, but still in a calm tone when he was warning. The audience were touched when he talked about ambassador Chris Steven. The audience were resonated when he denounced the attackers. All in all, Obama strongly re-affirm America’s foreign policy and diplomacy limitation, and the message was clearly sent out.
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