[ti:Obama Security Policy Stresses Diplomacy, Development and Coalitions]
[ar:Doug Johnson]
[al:IN THE NEWS]
[by:51voa.com]
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[00:03.74]This is IN THE NEWS
[00:05.54]in VOA Special English.
[00:08.63]This week,
[00:09.64]the Obama administration
[00:11.53]released its first National
[00:13.87]Security Strategy.
[00:15.02]The policy statement renews
[00:17.92]support for American military
[00:20.76]superiority in the world.
[00:23.05]But the fifty-two pages also talk
[00:26.54]about the importance of diplomacy,
[00:29.71]development and coalition-building
[00:32.64]to reach policy goals.
[00:34.59]The Obama administration
[00:37.77]has sought to distance itself
[00:40.21]from the disputed policies
[00:42.45]of George W. Bush.
[00:44.85]The former president's policy
[00:46.99]on the right to attack possible threats
[00:49.87]came after the terrorist attacks
[00:53.12]in two thousand one.
[00:54.81]Under a nineteen eighty-six law,
[00:58.33]presidents are supposed to report
[01:01.48]their national security goals
[01:03.52] to Congress each year.
[01:05.92]That has not happened.
[01:08.21]But the Obama administration
[01:10.90]has made its general goals
[01:13.19]known for some time.
[01:15.23]Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
[01:18.52]calls it "smart power."
[01:20.76]She discussed the new strategy report
[01:23.99]in a speech at the
[01:25.60]Brookings Institution in Washington.
[01:28.43]She said the United States
[01:30.72]is moving from mostly
[01:32.57]the direct exercise of power
[01:35.16]to what she called "a more sophisticated
[01:38.89]and difficult mix
[01:40.78]of indirect power and influence."
[01:43.72]She said the military itself,
[01:46.91]examining its experiences
[01:49.16]in Iraq and Afghanistan,
[01:51.68]has come to recognize
[01:53.68]the limits of the use of force.
[01:56.07]HILLARY CLINTON: "We cannot have a militarized model
[01:59.95]of diplomacy and development
[02:01.84]and expect to be successful
[02:04.28]in making our case
[02:05.52]on all these other issues
[02:07.62]that we engage with governments on."
[02:09.41]The policy statement also discusses
[02:12.57]the link between the economic health
[02:15.60]of the United States
[02:17.00]and its position in the world.
[02:19.84]Secretary Clinton said current levels
[02:23.87]of debt and deficits cannot continue
[02:27.55]without the United States
[02:29.79]losing influence and being limited
[02:33.08]in the decisions it has to make.
[02:35.62]The strategy says the United States
[02:39.45]aims to disrupt, dismantle
[02:42.68]and defeat al-Qaida,
[02:44.87]but also to support democracy
[02:47.61]and human rights.
[02:49.25]It says the United States
[02:51.74]"is waging a global campaign"
[02:54.88]but adds "this is not a global war
[02:58.76]against a tactic ¡ª terrorism
[03:01.45]or a religion ¡ª Islam."
[03:04.64]Presidential adviser John Brennan says
[03:08.57]a top goal will be to fight the rise
[03:11.72]of "home-grown" terrorism.
[03:14.11]But terrorism is not the only
[03:17.74]national security concern.
[03:19.99]The strategy also deals
[03:22.58]with issues like North Korea.
[03:25.51]This week, tensions continued
[03:28.85]to rise over the sinking
[03:30.64]of a South Korean navy ship in March.
[03:34.42]International investigators
[03:37.50]have blamed a North Korean submarine
[03:40.65]for the attack.
[03:42.04]Forty-six sailors died on the Cheonan.
[03:46.07]North Korea denies any involvement.
[03:49.41]The sinking has led the two Koreas
[03:53.41]to cut most of their trade
[03:55.40]and communications links.
[03:57.49]The situation raised fears
[04:00.68]that the peninsula could be
[04:02.82]headed toward a return of the warfare
[04:05.80]of the early nineteen fifties.
[04:08.24]Secretary of State Clinton,
[04:11.57]in Seoul earlier this week
[04:14.02]at the end of a trip to Asia, said
[04:17.31]the world has a duty to act
[04:20.20]over the sinking.
[04:21.76]South Korea and the United States
[04:24.94]have been urging China to join them
[04:27.73]in punishing North Korea
[04:30.12]in the United Nations Security Council.
[04:33.05]And that's IN THE NEWS
[04:35.49]in VOA Special English,
[04:37.88]written by Brianna Blake
[04:40.43]with David Gollust in Washington
[04:42.58]and Steve Herman in Seoul.
[04:45.31]I'm Doug Johnson.
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