By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-24 21:11:05 | Updated at 2024-09-30 19:21:10
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‘Things Fall Apart’: Biden, at UN, Reflects on Four Years of Chaos in Foreign Policy
Breitbart ^ | 09/24/2024 | Joel B. Pollak
Posted on 09/24/2024 2:02:36 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
President Joe Biden delivered what might have been his last major international address at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, acknowledging that the world is a more chaotic place but sounding a note of hope.
In his speech, Biden referred to the famous line from Irish poet William Butler Yeats, “Things fall apart.” He acknowledged that the world had unraveled in the past four years, but pushed back against pessimism:
In 1919, the Irish poet William Butler Yeats described a world, and I quote, where “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,” end of quote.
Some may say those words describe the world not just in 1919 but in 2024. But I see a cri- — a critical distinction.
In our time, the center has held. Leaders and people from every region and across the political spectrum have stood together. Turned the page — we turned the page on the worst pandemic in a century. We made sure COVID no longer controls our lives. We defended the U.N. Charter and ensured the survival of Ukraine as a free nation. My country made the largest investment in climate and clean energy ever, anywhere in history.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; foreign; policy; reflects; un
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Whos fault is that diaper brain???
To: ChicagoConservative27
Things fall apart ... as planned
2 posted on 09/24/2024 2:04:41 PM PDT by farmguy ( )
To: ChicagoConservative27
The dried up retard is incapable of noticing or acknowledging that it fell apart under his “leadership”.
3 posted on 09/24/2024 2:05:23 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (Trump/Vance 2024 or GFY)
To: ChicagoConservative27
It never came together in the first place. Go back to the Island of Moronica where you belong.
4 posted on 09/24/2024 2:06:01 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Things fall apart when they rot.
To: ChicagoConservative27
What idiot speechwriter decided to use that quote?
Yes, I think it accurately reflects the chaos that Joe has unleashed. But the speech is TRYING to use that quote in an effort to show that Joe has been successfully keeping everything together. Should have found a better quote for that particular message.
6 posted on 09/24/2024 2:09:59 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)
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