{"id":10734,"date":"2012-05-26T22:09:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T20:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/05\/biden-tells-west-point-cadets-prepare-for-new-threats\/"},"modified":"2012-05-26T22:09:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T20:09:21","slug":"biden-tells-west-point-cadets-prepare-for-new-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/biden-tells-west-point-cadets-prepare-for-new-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden tells West Point cadets: prepare for new threats"},"content":{"rendered":"

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* Says ending Iraq, Afghanistan wars allows U.S. to refocus<\/span><\/p>\n

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* U.S.-China relationship critical with trade booming<\/p>\n

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* Salutes brave choices of “9\/11 generation” soldiers<\/p>\n

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By Laura MacInnis<\/p>\n

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WASHINGTON, May 26 (Reuters) – Most of the cadets who
\ngraduated on Saturday from West Point were in elementary school
\nwhen hijacked planes hit the World Trade Center and Pentagon on
\nSept. 11, 2001, and enrolled in the U.S. military academy with
\nwars raging in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

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Vice President Joe Biden lauded the brave choices of the
\nClass of 2012 – and their so-called “9\/11 generation” – with a
\ncommencement address focused on the United States’ new foreign
\npolicy challenges including cyber threats and a rising China.<\/p>\n

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He noted that nearly 3 million young Americans joined the
\nmilitary after the al Qaeda attacks, knowing they were likely to
\nbe sent into battle in remote parts of Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

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“Hundreds of thousands of you have laced up those combat
\nboots and walked across those barren deserts and snow-capped
\nmountains,” he said in remarks that were also beamed live to the
\nU.S. Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan as well as the White House
\npress room.<\/p>\n

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But Biden, whose eldest son Beau served in Iraq as a captain
\nin the Delaware National Guard and was in the audience at West
\nPoint, said Saturday’s graduates would have to focus on a new
\nset of threats, with the Iraq war over and Afghanistan’s ending.
\n\u00a0 Continued…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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