In one of the most consequential speeches from an American leader in decades — akin to JFK’s ‘I am a Berliner’ and Reagan’s ‘Tear down this wall’– President Biden rallied humanity last week in Warsaw, Poland citing its native hero, Pope John Paul, to ‘Be Not Afraid’:
“Defending democracy, fighting autocracy and dictatorship is the task of our time. Free people refuse to live in a world of hopelessness and darkness. Every generation has had to defeat democracy’s moral foes. Will we allow the future of the world to be determined by brute force or by free peoples exercising their democratic rights? We stand with you. Your freedom is our freedom. Let us have faith again that right makes might.”
Please share widely!
It is unfortunate that Mr. Biden overshadowed what might have been a great speech by his apparently ad-libbed call for regime change in Russia.
I wish Mr. Biden had maintained more discipline and stayed on-message.
This is the latest media moral outrage shiny object distraction.
President Biden said today that he did NOT call for regime change and there is no policy change. He expressed his moral outrage and that of the civilized world at Putin’s unprovoked attack on the peace-loving, innocent people of Ukraine.
Understood, I’ve read his clarification.