the world. >> we cannot achieve democracy and lasting peace in the world unless women obtain the same opportunities as men to influence development at all levels of society. >> it is worth noting that the yemeni recipient is the first arab woman to receive the nobel peace prize. well, no formal ceremony by u.s. troops in afghanistan today to mark the tenth anniversary of the war. the conflict is the longest in u.s. history. more than 2,700 coalition forces have been killed over the decade. 1,780 of them, americans. pakistan may charge a doctor with high treason because he helped the united states guess osama bin laden. the doctor, as you may recall, set up a bogus vaccination program for the cia. agents wanted to get dna samples from people living in bin laden's compound, which you see right there. the u.s. has repeatedly been pressing pakistan to free this doctor. let's check it out. her smile, a mile wide. congresswoman gabrielle giffords helped honor her husband at his retirement ceremony. . that happened in washington just yesterday. astronaut mark kelly commanded weren't of the final shuttle flights and giffords continues her rehabilitation in houston. that bullet wound was to her head. simon and schuster is moving up the release of its steve jobs biography by a month or so to october 2th, pushing the book to number one at amazon.com after apple chairman died on wednesday. jobs reportedly reached out to the book's author in august to tell him that cancer would soon likely take his life. prince harry is expected to show up at the united states any day now for military training. the british royal will learn how to fly the apache helicopter gunship stationed at el centro naval base in southern california, also where the tom cruise film "top gun" was shot. harry served a tour in afghanistan back in 2008 and reportedly wants to go back. what's ahead on the "rundown." first, today, the 21st straight day of the occupy wall street protest. we're going to show you 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now, that's progressive. call or click today. we are awaiting mitt romney, republican presidential hopeful, to take the stage and talk about his own vision for national security and foreign policy. let's listen in. >> thank you. thank you. general, appreciate the welcome of the cadets here and friends in the community and the opportunity that you have given me to speak and address a number of items of great significance. it's always an honor to be here in south carolina, where patriotism is a passion that tops even barbecue and football. and it's a great honor to be here at the citadel. every great university and college produces future engineers and doctors and lawyers and entrepreneurs. here at the citadel you of course, do all that but have another specialty as well. you produce heroes. over 1,400 of your alumni have served in iraq and afghanistan, and elsewhere, fighting the war against terrorism, and 16 have paid the ultimate price. since 1842, every tyrant, every petty thug, or great power that threatened america learned if you wanted to take on america, you're going to have to take on the citadel as well. that's a lot of heroes that's never broken, a line of heroes that's never broken and never will be. this is in fact a true citadel of american honor, values and courage. now, the other day i heard the president say that americans had gone soft. i guess he wasn't talking about how hard it is for millions of americans who are trying to get a job or stretch a too small paycheck through the week. as each of you looks beyond this institution, to the life before you, i know you face many difficult questions in a world that's fraught with uncertainty. america is in an economic crisis the likes of which we have never seen in our lifetimes. europe is struggling with the greatest economic crisis since the cold war. one that calls into question the very definition of the european union. around the world we see upheaval and change. our next president will face extraordinary challenges that could alter the destiny of america and indeed the freedom of the world. today i want you to join me in looking forward. forward beyond the national recognition day, beyond ring weekend, to four years from today. october 7, 2015. what kind of world will we be facing then? will iran be a fully activated nuclear weapons state threatening its neighbors, dominating the world's oil supply with a stranglehold on the strait of hormuz? in the hands of ayatollahs. a nuclear iran is nothing less than an existential threat to israel. fanatics could blackmail the world. by 2015, will israel be even more isolated by a hostile international community? will those who seek israel's destruction feel emboldened by american benevolence? will israel have been forced to fight yet another war to protect its citizens and its very right to exist? in afghanistan, after the united states and nato have withdrawn all forces, will the taliban find a path back to power? after over a decade of american sacrifice in treasure and blood, will the country slip back into the medieval terrors of fundamentalist rules and the mullahs open a sanctuary for terrorists? next door, pakistan awaits the uncertain future armed with more than 100 nuke color weapons. nuclear weapons. the danger of a failed pakistan is difficult to overestimate. it's fraught with nightmare scenarios. will a nuclear weapon be in the hands of islamic fundamentalists? china has made it clear that it intends to be a military and an economic superpower, where rulers lead the people to a new era of freedom and prosperity or go down a darker path intimidating their neighbors? brushing aside an inferior american navy in the pacific and building a global alliance of authoritarian states? russia. it's at an historic crossroads. vladimir putin called the breakup of the soviet union a tragedy. will he bludgeon the countries of the former soviet union into submission and intimidate europe with a lever? to ourselves, will aligned socialism of hugo chavez' venezuela endefined with castro's cuba undermine a nation thirsting for freedom and stability and prosperity? our border with mexico remains an open. will drug cartel join in the regions of the united states with greater and greater violence spilling over into our country? will we have failed to secure the border and stem the tide of illegal immigrants, and will drug smugglers and terrorists increasingly make their way into our midsts? this would be a troubling and threatening world for america, but it's not unrealistic. these are only some of the very real dangers that america faces if we continue the factless policies of the past three years. of course, it doesn't have to be this way. this isn't our destiny. it's a choice. we're a democracy. you decide. in this campaign for the presidency of the united states, i will offer a very different vision of america's role in the world, and of america's destiny. our next president is going to face many difficult and complex foreign policy decisions. few of them will be black and white, but i'm leer today to tell thaw i'm guided by one overwhelming conviction and passion. this century must be an american century. in an american century, america has the strongest economy and the strongest military in the world. in an american century, america leads the free world, and the free world leads the entire world. god did not create this country to be a nation of followers. america is not destined to be one of several equally balanced global powers. america must lead the world, or someone else will. without american leadership, without clarity of american purpose and resolve, the world becomes a far more dangerous place, and liberty and prosperity would surely be among the first casualties. let me make this very clear. as president of the united states, i will devote myself to an american century, and i will never, ever apologize for america. now, some may ask, why america? why should america be any different than scores of other countries around the globe? i believe we are an exceptional country with a unique destiny and role in the world. not exceptional, as the president has said in a way british thinks great britain is exceptional or the greeks think greece is exceptional. in barack obama's profoundly mistaken view, there's nothing unique about the united states, but we are exceptional. and we're exceptional because we are a nation founded on a precious idea that was birthed in the american revolution, and pro pounded by our greatest statesmen in our fundamental documents. we are a people who threw off the yoke of tyranny and established a government in abraham lincoln's words, of the people, by the people and for the people. we're a people who in the language of our declaration of independence holds certain truths to be self-evident, namely, that all men are created by their creator with certain unalienable rights. it is our belief in the universality of these unalienable rights that lead us to our exceptional role on the world stage, that of a great champion of human dignity and american and human freedom. we love the principles of america's founding. i was born in 1947. classic baby boomer. i grew up in a world formed by one dominant threat to america. the soviet union. and communism. the duck and cover drills we learned in school during the missile cuban crisis resulted by a threat by a known identifiable enemy with clear border and established leaders. we needed spy planes to find the hidden missile bases in cuba, but we didn't need them to find mikita khrushchev. the president could negotiate with mikhail gorbachev and sign treaties and when we caught the soviets cheating we could bring the world's attention to their transgressions. today our world is far more chaotic. we still face grave threats, but they count not from one country or one group or one ideology. the world is not so defined. what america and her allies are facing is a series of threatening forces. ones that overlap and reinforce one another. to defend america, and to secure a peaceful and prosperous world, we need to clearly understand these emerging threats, grasp their perplexity and form latt a strategy before they explode into conflict. it's far too easy for a president to jump from crisis to crisis dealing with one hot spot after another, but to do so is to be shaped by events rather than to shape events. to avoid this paralyzing seduction of action rather than progress, a president must have a broad vision of the entire world coupled with clarity of purpose. had i look around the world, i see a handful of major forces that vie with america and free nations to shape the world in an image of their choosing. these are not exclusively military threats. rather, they are determined, powerful forces that may threaten freedom, prosperity and america's national interests. first, isz lalamic fundamentali with which we've been at war since september 11th, and those who yearn for freedom and those who seek depression. the failed and failing states from which terrorists may find safe haven. the anti-america visions in iran, north korea, venezuela, cuba, two of which are seeking nuclear weapons, and these forces include rising nations with hidden and emerging aspirations like china, determined to be a world superpower and a resurgent russia, led by a man who believes the soviet union was great, not evil. there's no one approach to these challenges. there's no law that the next president can demand, or a wall to be torn down, but one unifying threats that connects each of these threats. when america is strong, the world is safer. president reagan called this peace through strength, and he was never more right than he is today. it is only america's power conceived in the broadest terms that can provide the foundation of an international system that ensures the security and prosperity of the united states and our friends and allies around the world. american strength rises from a strong economy. a strong defense, and the enduring strength of our strong values. unfortunately -- unfortunately under this president all three of those elements have been weakened. as president on day one i will focus on rebuilding america's economy. it's a foundation of our strength. i will reverse president obama's massive defense cuts. time and again we have seen the attempts to balance the budget by weakening our military only lead to a far higher price in the future. not only in treasure but also in blood. my strategy of american strength is guided by a set of core principle. first, american foreign policy must be prosecuted with clarity and resolve. our friends and allies must have no doubts about where we stand. and neither should our rivals. if the world knows we are resolute, our allies will be comforted, and those who wish us harm will be far less tempted to test that resolve. second, america must promote open markets, representative government and respect for human rights. the path from authoritarianism to freedom and representative government is not always a straight line or an easy evolution, but history teaches us the nations that share our values will be reliable partners and stand with us in pursuit of common security and shared prosperity. third, the united states will apply the full spectrum of hard and soft power to influence events before they erupt into conflict. resort to forces always the least desirable and the costliest option. we must, therefore, employ all the tools of statecraft to shape the outcome of threatening situations before they demand military action. the united states should always retain military sue prpremacy t defend our allies and ourselves. and know this. if america is the undisputed leader of the world, it reduces our need to police a more chaotic world. fourth, the united states must exercise leadership in multilateral organizations and our alliances. american leadership lends credibility and breeds faith in the ultimate success of any action and attracts full participation from other nations. american leadership will also focus multilateral institutions like the u.n. on achieving the substantive goals of democracy and human rights enshrined in their charters. too often, those bodies, while they prize the act of negotiating over the outcome to be reached, and shamefully, they can become forms for the tantrums of tyrants and the airing of the world's most ancient of prech prejudices. anti-semitism. the united states must fight to return these bodies to their proper role, but know this -- while america should work with other nations, we always reserve the right to act alone to protect our vital national interests. in my first 100 days in office, i will take a series of measures to put these principles into action. and place america and the world on safer footing. among these actions will be an effort to restore america's national defense. i will reverse the hollowing of our navy and announce an initiative to increase the ship-building rate from nine per year to 15 ships per year. i will begin reversing obama era cuts to national missile defense, and prioritize the full deployment of a multilayered national ballistic missile defense system, and i will order the formulation of a national cyber security strategy to deter and defend against the growing threats of militarized cyber attacks, cyber terrorism, and cyber espionage. i will enhance our deterrent against the iranian regime by ordering the regular presence of aircraft carrier task forces. one in the eastern mediterranean, and one in the persian gulf region. i'll begin discussions with israel to inthe military assistance and coordination and again reiterate that iran obtaining a nuclear weapon is unacceptable. i will begin organizing all our diplomatic and assistance efforts in the greater middle east under one official with the authority and accountability necessary to train all our soft power resources on ensuring that the arab spring does not fade into a long winter. i'll launch a campaign to advance economic opportunity in latin america and contrast the benefits of democracy, free trade and free enterprise against the material and more's bankruptcy of the venezuelan and cuba model. order a transition to the afghan military to secure that nation's sovereignty from the terror organization the taliban, and speak to commanders in the field and receive our best recommendations from our military commanders. the force necessary to complete or gains and our mission successfully is a decision i will make free from politics. i will bolster and repair alliances. our friends should never fear that we will not stand by them in an hour of need. i will reaffirm as a vital national interest israel'sist s existence as a jewish state. and with the united kingdom, and become talks with mexico to strengthen cooperation on our shared problems of drugs and security. this is america's moment. we should embrace the challenge and not shrink from it. not crawl into an isolationist shell. not wave the white flag of surrender, nor give in to those who assert that america's time has passed. that's utter nonsense. an eloquently justified surrender of world leadership is still surrender. i will not surrender america's role in the world. this is very simple. if you do not want america to be the strongest nation on earth, i'm not your president. you have that president today. >> the 21st century can and must be an american century. it began with terror, war, economic calamity. it is our duty to steer it under the path of freedom, peace and prosperity. my hope is that our grandchildren will remember us in the same way that we remember the past generations of americans who overcame adversity. the generations that fought in world wars, that came through the great depression and that gained victory in the cold war. let future generations look back on us and say, they rose to the occasion. they embraced their duty, and they led our nation to safety and to greatness. the greatest generation is passing, but as their life fades, we must seize the torch they carried so galliently as such great sacrifice. it is an eternal torch of decency, freedom and hope. it's not america's torch alone. but it's america's duty and honor to hold it high enough that all the world can see its light. believe in america. thank you so much. and god bless this great country. thank you. you're listening to republican presidential hopeful mitt romney laying out his plan for national security, his vision for u.s. policy if he were to become president, before citadel's students there. i want to bring in our own wolf blitzer out of washington and, wolf what really struck me about this speech is how much he sounds like former president bush, and i guess that's not surprising, his national security team is made up of a lot of bush advisers. michael chertoff, jim wilkinson, a 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