into a pifvot forward approach, to draw a collective strength. but of course it is punctuated by so much more. the fight against covid-19. it s almost as though the longest war in american history is merely an afterthought, which is extraordinary in and of itself given, you know, this huge toll it was taking. i think big picture here, we should pause. yes, there is a skeptical audience. yes, there is scrutiny. but this is a different u.s. leader. the tone here is draw dramatically different from president trump, of course, who came here and effectively put his thumb into the eye of the u.n. president biden did not do that. but he also said, i thought, interestingly, we will not shy away from competition but we will avoid conflict. so sort of imbued in all of this are the issues of our time. he did not mention france specifically. i think one of the biggest take-aways, yes, it s a different moment, but he has to
a ending this pandemic and making sure we re better prepared for the next one. staiching off climatic climate change and increasing our resilience to the impacts we re already seeing. ensuring a future where technologies are a vital tool to solving human challenges and empowering human potential, not a source of greater strife and repression. these are the challenges that we will determine what the world looks like for our children and grandchildren and what they ll inherit. we can only meet them by looking to the future. i stand here today for the first time in 20 years with the united states not at war. i turn the page. all the unmatched energy and commitment, will and resources of our nation are now fully and squarely focus on what s ahead of us, not what s behind. i know this as we look ahead,
heal our divisions, that we face down violence and insurrection. democracy remains the best tool we have to unleash our full human potential. my fellow leaders, this is a moment where we must prove ourselves the equals of those who come before us, who had vision and values and determined faith in our collective future built our united nations, broke the cycle of war and destruction, and laid the foundations for more than seven decades of relative peace and growing global prosperity. now we must again come together to affirm the inherent humanity that unites us is much greater than any outward divisions or disagreements. we must choose to do more than we think we can do alone so that we accomplish what we must together.
administration help lead the world toward a more peaceful, prosperous future for all people. instead of continuing to fight the wars of the past, we are fixing our eyes on devote ting resource that hold the keys to our collective future. ending the pandemic, managing the shifts in global power dynamics, shaping the rules of the world on trade, cyber, and emerging technologies, and facing the threat of terrorism as it stands today. we ve end 20 years of conflict in afghanistan, and as we close this period of relentless war, we re opening a new era of diplomacy, of using the power of our development to invest in new ways of lifting people up around the world, of renewing and
the iran nuclear deal if iran were also to return to full compliance. we might note a sharp contrast in the language. the rhetoric we heard today from this president as compared to his predecessor, perhaps more boilerplate than hyperbole that we ve heard in recent years. we re joined now by jeff zeleny, dana bash, and others to run through the most important points of the address. jeff, the key messages here seemed to be, one, alliances are necessary, they work, they re really the only approach that can work with global challenges today, but also noting that he said at the end there this is the first time a u.s. president addressing the assembly in some 20 years where the u.s. was not at war. perhaps that s the headline that president biden would have wanted to come out of this, jim. this is a historic time here, 20 years on after the longest war. he sought to turn this moment