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knows the dream of you know that the only reason we stand here tonight is because men and women from both of our nations came together to work, and struggle, and sacrifice for that better is a partnership that truly began sixty years ago this summer, on the day when the first American plane touched down at that day, much of this continent still lay in ruin.? The rubble of this city had yet to be built into a Soviet shadow had swept across Eastern Europe, while in the West, America, Britain, and France took stock of their losses, and pondered how the world might be is where the two sides met.? And on the twentyfourth of June, 1948, the Communists chose to blockade the western part of the cut off food and supplies to more than two million Germans in an effort to extinguish the last flame of freedom in size of our forces was no match for the much larger Soviet yet retreat would have allowed Communism to march across the last war had ended, another World War could have easily that stood in the way was Berlin.? And that39。s mayor implore the world not to give up on freedom.“There is only one possibility,” he said.“For us to stand together united until this battle is won? The people of Berlin have have done our duty, and we will keep on doing our of the world: now do your duty? People of the world, look at Berlin!” People of the worldlook at Berlin!Look at Berlin, where Germans and Americans learned to work together and trust each other less than three years after facing each other on the field of at Berlin, where the determination of a people met the generosity of the Marshall Plan and created a German miracle。freedom and tyranny。re honest with each other, we know that sometimes, on both sides of the Atlantic, we have drifted apart, and forgotten our shared Europe, the view that America is part of what has gone wrong in our world, rather than a force to help make it right, has bee all too America, there are voices that deride and deny the importance of Europe39。and that just as American bases built in the last century still help to defend the security of this continent, so does our country still sacrifice greatly for freedom around the , there have been differences between America and doubt, there will be differences in the the burdens of global citizenship continue to bind us change of leadership in Washington will not lift this this new century, Americans and Europeans alike will be required to do morenot and cooperation among nations is not a choice。natives and immigrants。in the Balkans, where our Atlantic alliance ended wars and brought savage war criminals to justice。of progress and require allies who will listen to each other, learn from each other and, most of all, trust each other.? That is why America cannot turn is why Europe cannot turn has no better partner than is the time to build new bridges across the globe as strong as the one that bound us across the is the time to join together, through constant cooperation, strong institutions, shared sacrifice, and a global mitment to progress, to meet the challenges of the 21st was this spirit that led airlift planes to appear in the sky above our heads, and people to assemble where we stand this is the moment when our nationsand all nationsmust summon that spirit is the moment when we must defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports threat is real and we cannot shrink from our responsibility to bat we could create NATO to face down the Soviet Union, we can join in a new and global partnership to dismantle the networks that have struck in Madrid and Amman。in Washington and New we could win a battle of ideas against the munists, we can stand with the vast majority of Muslims who reject the extremism that leads to hate instead of is the moment when we must renew our resolve to rout the terrorists who threaten our security in Afghanistan, and the traffickers who sell drugs on your one weles recognize the enormous difficulties in my country and yours have a stake in seeing that NATO39。s borders is a the people of Afghanistan, and for our shared security, the work must be cannot do this Afghan people need our troops and your troops。to stop the spread of nuclear weapons。instead they delivered food, and coal, and candy to grateful in that show of solidarity, those pilots won more than a military won hearts and minds。by security and justice? Will we lift the child in Bangladesh from poverty, shelter the refugee in Chad, and banish the scourge of AIDS in our time? Will we stand for the human rights of the dissident in Burma, the blogger in Iran, or the voter in Zimbabwe? Will we give meaning to the words “never again” in Darfur?? Will we acknowledge that there is no more powerful example than the one each of our nations projects to the world? Will we reject torture and stand for the rule of law? Will we wele immigrants from different lands, and shun discrimination against those who don39。ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our 39。to seek, with other nations, a more hopeful allegiance has never been to any particular tribe or kingdomindeed, every language is spoken in our country。every point of view is expressed in our public has always united uswhat has always driven our people。s shoresis a set of ideals that speak to aspirations shared by all people: that we can live free from fear and free from want。感謝默克爾總理和外長施泰因邁爾今天早些時候?qū)ξ业臍g迎。我來柏林之前,已有很多我的同胞來過。我知道我并不像以前在這個偉大的城市曾經(jīng)演講過的美國人一樣。我的母親出生在美國的中心,但我父親在肯尼亞長大,從小放牧山羊。在冷戰(zhàn)高峰的時期,我父親決定,和其他許多被遺忘在世界各個角落的人們一樣,他渴望和夢想著西方承諾給予世人的自由和機(jī)會。這就是我在這里的原因。這座城市連同它所有的市民,也都深知自由的夢想。真正開始我們的伙伴關(guān)系是在六十年前的一個夏天,當(dāng)時美國第一架飛機(jī)降落在這里。城市中的瓦礫還沒有被建成柏林墻。就是在這里雙方開始了會晤。超過兩百萬德國人的食物和日用品供應(yīng)被切斷。能阻擋這個的就是柏林。然而可怕的幾率阻礙了我們的成功。在我們站立的街道上,充滿了饑餓的家庭,他們不曾在冷戰(zhàn)中舒適過。柏林人民拒絕放棄。他說,“世界上只有一種可能性”,“我們團(tuán)結(jié)一致站在一起直到勝利,柏林人民已經(jīng)向世界宣誓過,我們盡了我們應(yīng)盡的職責(zé),而且我們將繼續(xù)我們的職責(zé)責(zé)任。注視柏林,在這里,滿懷決心的人們看到了慷慨的馬歇爾計(jì)劃,并創(chuàng)造了德國的奇跡。世界人民,注視柏林,這這里,柏林墻到了,大陸走到一起,歷史證明,沒有比這更大的挑戰(zhàn)了。歷史已經(jīng)將我們引領(lǐng)到一個新的十字路口、新的承諾和新的危險(xiǎn)。民主門窗被打開,市場也開放了