Duty calls at home - John Kerry

Duty calls at home

Partisan routines also our enemy

This week the heroic actions of Navy SEAL Team 6 helped close a chapter in our history that began with the cowardly attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Nothing can erase the painful memories of that day, especially when so many of us in Boston lost friends on the doomed planes leaving Logan Airport.

Osama bin Laden’s death doesn’t end the threat of terrorism, but his iconic stature, his ability to plot, organize and motivate terrorists made him a unique threat, and America is safer today because he’s dead.

This week’s developments highlighted the reality that we’ve got serious challenges at home. Suddenly, we’re not hearing about “birthers” and Donald Trump because Americans want to talk about real things. Right after 9/11 we said we couldn’t let terrorists change who we are and they haven’t. We’ve preserved our democracy and the debate at the very heart of it.

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At home, we have big decisions on energy, education, infrastructure, research, deficits and entitlements that will decide whether America will keep leading the world. These decisions can bolster our economic recovery and create jobs of the future, but only if Congress gets serious about doing what’s right for America.
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At home, we have big decisions on energy, education, infrastructure, research, deficits and entitlements that will decide whether America will keep leading the world. These decisions can bolster our economic recovery and create jobs of the future, but only if Congress gets serious about doing what’s right for America.