There was a time, not so long ago, when the might of our alliances was a driving force in the survival and the success of freedom... America must always be the world's paramount military power, but we can magnify our power through alliances... let there be no doubt, this country is united in its determination to defeat terrorism...

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "There was a time, not so long ago, when the might of our alliances was a driving force in the survival and the success of freedom... America must always be the world's paramount military power, but we can magnify our power through alliances... let there be no doubt, this country is united in its determination to defeat terrorism..." in the context of "John Kerry, May 27, 2004 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1227121,00.html" to mean that wisdom is timeless.