John Kerry Tells Students They Are “Graduating Into a Borderless World”
May 08, 2016
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On Friday, Secretary of State John Kerry delivered the commencement address at Northeastern University. During this address, he told the graduating class they are "about to graduate into a complex and borderless world."
The Washington Examiner reports:
Kerry also seemed to dismiss the importance of national borders, and said technology has reshaped the world into one that the U.S. must engage at the risk of being left behind. He said Trump and others who want to look inward are making a mistake, even in the face of rising tension and violence in the world. "For some people, that is all they need simply to climb under the sheets, close their eyes and push the world away," Kerry said. "And shockingly, we even see this attitude from some who think they ought to be entrusted with the job of managing international affairs." "The future demands from us something more than a nostalgia for some rose-tinted version of the past that did not really exist in any case," he said. "You're about to graduate into a complex and borderless world."Kerry's dismissal of national borders was part of his attack on GOP presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump.