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| President Barack Obama reaches out to students and parents at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Va., after speaking about his efforts to prevent interest rates from doubling on federal student loans, Friday, May 4, 2012. |
WASHINGTON — Placing a final punctuation mark on a week devoted to
foreign policy, President Barack Obama on Saturday declared that his
goal of defeating al-Qaida was within reach and said it was now time to
turn the country's attention to more domestic concerns like
strengthening the middle class.
Just four days after a surprise 36-hour round trip to Afghanistan, Obama said that money saved from ending wars should be used equally to pay down the debt and to spend on health care, education and infrastructure.
"After more than a decade of war, it is time to focus on nation-building here at home," he said in his weekly radio and Internet address.
The president took note of the agreement he signed with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday that shifts security to the Afghan people and reminded the American public, once again, of the special forces operation that killed Osama bin Laden a year ago. Read More...
Just four days after a surprise 36-hour round trip to Afghanistan, Obama said that money saved from ending wars should be used equally to pay down the debt and to spend on health care, education and infrastructure.
"After more than a decade of war, it is time to focus on nation-building here at home," he said in his weekly radio and Internet address.
The president took note of the agreement he signed with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday that shifts security to the Afghan people and reminded the American public, once again, of the special forces operation that killed Osama bin Laden a year ago. Read More...
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Today we are getting self centered to the extent that sometime we even don’t know for who is living next to our door.
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We generally think that our self-absorbed behavior is good because nobody will disturb then but it is our one of the biggest mistake which we realize further in situation when we need someone’s help in emergency. So it’s better to be updated about our surrounding. Such surrounding does not only include only our neighborhood but the whole world.
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