thank you thank you for that kind
introduction and may I say trying to follow
Bono is reminds me of the story of the
actress Zsa Gabor's fifth husband who on
their wedding night said I know what I'm
supposed to do I just don't know how to
make it interesting
so anyway
not every American understands the
absolutely vital role that Germany and
it's honorable Chancellor Chancellor
Merkel are playing in defense of the
idea and the conscience of the West but
all of us who do let me say thank you my
friends in the Forte for decades I have
attended this conference I cannot recall
a year where its purpose was more
necessary or more important and this
panel is going to ask us consider
whether the West will survive in recent
years this question would invite
accusations by personally and alarmism
not this year if ever there was a time
to treat this question with a deadly
seriousness it is now this question was
real half a century ago when he won
clients and their founders of this
conference
it's why the first started coming to
Munich they did not assume that the West
would survive because they had seen it's
nearly annihilation they saw open
markets give way to beggar thy neighbor
protectionism and the poverty that
imposed they saw World Order fracture
into clashing ethnic and nationalist
passions in the mirror misery that
thought they saw the rise of hostile
great powers in the failure of returns
and the wars that followed from the
ashes of the most awful calamity in
human history was born what we call the
West a new and different and better kind
of world order one based not on blood
and soil nationalism or spheres of
influence our conquest of the week by
the strong but rather on universal
values rule of law open commerce and
respect for the national sovereignty and
independence indeed the entire idea of
the West is that it is open to any
person or any nation that honors and
oppose these values the unprecedented
period of security and prosperity that
we have enjoyed for the past seven
decades didn't happen x axis
it happened not only because of the
appeal of our values but because we
backed him up with our power and
persevered in their defense our
predecessors did not believe in the end
of history that it bends inevitably
towards justice
that's up to us that requires are
persistent painstaking effort and that's
why we come to Munich year after year
after year what would bond quite
generation say if they saw our world
today I fear that much about it would be
all too familiar for them and they would
be alarmed by it they would be alive by
an increasing turn away from universal
values and twirled toward old ties of
blood and race and sectarianism they
would be alarmed by the hardening
resentment we see towards immigrants and
refugees and minority groups especially
Muslims they would be alarmed by the
growing inability and even unwillingness
to separate truth from lies they would
be alarmed that more and more of our
fellow citizens seem to be flirting with
authoritarianism and romanticizing it as
our moral equivalent the liquid
environment most I think it's a sense
that many of our peoples including in my
own country are giving up on the West
that they see it as a bad deal that we
may be better off without that while
Western nations still have the power to
maintain our world order
it's unclear whether we have the will
all of us must accept our share of blame
for this turn of events we grow
complacent we made mistakes at times we
try to do too much and others failed to
do enough we lost touch with many of our
people we've been too slow to recognize
and respond to their hardships we need
the base up to these realities but this
does not mean losing hope and retreating
that we must not do i know i know there
is profound concern across Europe in the
world that America is laying down the
mantle of global leadership I can only
speak for myself but I do not believe
that that is the message you will hear
from all of the American leaders who
cared enough to travel here to Munich
this weekend
that's what not not the message you
heard today from Secretary of Defense
Jim mattis that's not the message you
will hear from vice president Mike Pence
that's not the message you will hear
from Secretary of Homeland Security John
Kelly and that is certainly not the
message you'll hear tomorrow from our
bipartisan congressional delegation make
no mistake my friends these are
dangerous times but you should not count
America out and mission
and we should not count each other out
we must be proven but we cannot bring
our hands and wallow in self doubt we
must appreciate the limits of our power
but we cannot allow ourselves to
question the rightness and goodness of
the West must understand and learn from
our mistakes but we cannot be paralyzed
by fear we cannot give up on our shelves
and on each other that is the definition
of decadence and that's how world
order's really do decline and fail that
is exactly what our adversaries one this
is their goal they have no meaningful
allies so they seek to show to send
among us and divide us from each other
they know that their power and influence
inferior to ours so they seek to subvert
us and wrote our resolve to resist and
terrorize us in the facility they know
they have little to offer the world
beyond selfishness and fear so they seek
to undermine our confidence in ourselves
and our belief in our who values we must
take our own side in this fight
we must be vigilant we must persevere
and through all and all we must never
never ceased to believe in the moral
superiority of our own values that we
stand for truth against falsehood
freedom against jeremy wright against
injustice hope against despair and that
even though we will inevitably take
losses and suffer setbacks through it
all as long as people of good will
encourage refuse to lose faith in the
west it will endure
that's why we come community that's why
we can't community year in and year out
to revise our common moral purpose our
belief that our values are worth the
fighting for
because in the final analysis the
survival of the West is not just a
material struggle it is now and has
always been a mortal struggle now more
than ever
we must not forget this during one of
the darkest days of the early cold war
the great American novelist William
Faulkner delivered a short speech and
taught in Stockholm upon receiving the
nobel prize for literature i declined to
accept the end of men partner said I
believe that men will not Millie merely
indoor he will prevail
he's immortal not because he alone among
creatures has an inexhaustible voice but
because he has a soul a spirit capable
of compassion and sacrifice and
endurance
even now when the temptation to despair
his greatest I refused to accept the end
of the West I refused to accept the
demise of our world order i refuse to
accept that our greatest triumph cannot
once again spring from our moments of
greatest peril as they have so many
times before I refuse to accept that our
values are morally equivalent to those
of our adversaries i'm a proud
unapologetic believer in the West I
believe we must always always stand up
for for we do not will thank you
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