2009.12.1美国总统奥巴马西点军校演讲（英文全文）.pdfVIP

徐老师原典英语 特别奉献——【美国总统奥巴马西点军校演讲】 原典英语官方网：/bbs The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release December 01, 2009 Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on the Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan Eisenhower Hall Theatre, United States Military Academy at West Point, West Point, New York 8:01 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Good evening. To the United States Corps of Cadets, to the men and women of our Armed Services, and to my fellow Americans: I want to speak to you tonight about our effort in Afghanistan -- the nature of our commitment there, the scope of our interests, and the strategy that my administration will pursue to bring this war to a successful conclusion. Its an extraordinary honor for me to do so here at West Point -- where so many men and women have prepared to stand up for our security, and to represent what is finest about our country. To address these important issues, its important to recall why America and our allies were compelled to fight a war in Afghanistan in the first 1 / 21 徐老师原典英语 特别奉献——【美国总统奥巴马西点军校演讲】 原典英语官方网：/bbs place. We did not ask for this fight. On September 11, 2001, 19 men hijacked four airplanes and used them to murder nearly 3,000 people. They struck at our military and economic nerve centers. They took the lives of innocent men, women, and children without regard to their faith or race or station. Were it not for the heroic actions of passengers onboard one of those flights, they could have also struck at one of the great symbols of our democracy in Washington, and killed many more. As we know, these men belonged to al Qaeda -