UN General Assembly
2011

place to plot or recruit young men to train as terrorists. But in the long term, we must defeat not only the terrorists, but the extremist ideology that feeds them. Al-Qaida’s poisonous ideology has thrived on repression. Democracy is what it fears most. People are not in Tahrir Square in Cairo and Freedom Square in Libya for an Islamist caliphate, but for a job, a voice and a future. And we must heed their call, for their freedom and for the security of us all.