President Obama: Threats To Security, Economy Are Worldwide (radio address)

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Source: Associated Press

'Global Coordination' Needed, President Says

From terrorism to the economic meltdown, problems menacing the United States' security and economy also threaten an increasingly interconnected world, President Barack Obama said Saturday.

"In this new century, we live in a world that has grown smaller and more interconnected than at any time in history," Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address, taped during his first presidential trip to Europe. "Threats to our nation's security and economy can no longer be kept at bay by oceans or by borders drawn on maps."

Because no one nation can handle such threats alone, it is valuable for a president to make such trips "to strengthen and protect our nation," he said.

Economic problems overseas mean people in those countries cannot buy the goods produced in the United States, which means more lost jobs, he said.

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