Washington Times
April 27, 2016
April 27, 2016
We’re fortunate to be living in the most peaceful era in human history, President Obama said in Germany on Monday before announcing that he was sending 250 more American special operations forces troops to Syria.
“I want to begin with an observation that, given the challenges that we face in the world and the headlines we see every day, may seem improbable, but it’s true,” Mr. Obama said in Hanover on the final day of his tour of Europe and the Middle East. “We are fortunate to be living in the most peaceful, most prosperous, most progressive era in human history.
“That may surprise young people who are watching TV or looking at your phones and it seems like only bad news comes through every day,” he said. “But consider that it’s been decades since the last war between major powers. More people live in democracies. We’re wealthier and healthier and better educated, with a global economy that has lifted up more than a billion people from extreme poverty, and created new middle classes from the Americas to Africa to Asia.
“If you had to choose a moment in time to be born, any time in human history, and you didn’t know ahead of time what nationality you were or what gender or what your economic status might be, you’d choose today — which isn’t to say that there is not still enormous suffering and enormous tragedy and so much work for us to do,” he said.
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