Ambassador Cunningham’s Remarks, September 11th Anniversary Thank you all for joining us this morning. We come together today to remember, reflect, and to mourn the nearly 3,000 people, men, women, and children, who were murdered thirteen years ago today during terror attacks in New York, Washington D.C., and Pennsylvania. While these despicable attacks were directed at the United States of America, it was in fact an attack on all peace loving citizens of the world; the victims of this cowardly, senseless attack hailed from over 90 different nations and represented a mosaic of people from diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds. I was the Acting U.S. Representative to the United Nations on 9/11, so I was there when it took place. The next day, I told my staff that what had happened would change the way we engage with the world for a long time. We have to be in this for the long haul. What we have done together in Afghanistan is worth it. I firmly believe the United States and Afghanistan, along with our international partners, are more secure and safer because of what we’ve done here. However, we are not at the point in which we can say “we’re finished and we’re out.” That’s not going to work. The events of September 11, 2001 reverberate still. Those attacks, as well as the attacks that followed in Madrid, London, Bali, Stockholm and too many other places around the world, serve as a stark reminder that terrorism is not a singular challenge, but a global scourge. Read more: go.usa.gov/VPJc
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 16:24:54 +0000
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