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I'll give a dollar to anyone who actually reads this and tells me what it is trying to say.
And I would add one personal observation. Over the past six months, we have presented President Obama with a number of actions and initiatives against al-Qaida and other terrorist groups. Not only has he approved these operations; he has encouraged us to be even more aggressive, even more proactive and even more innovative, to seek out new ways and new opportunities for taking down these terrorists before they can kill more innocent men, women and children.
To this end, the president is devoting new resources, investing in new capabilities, approving new actions and adapting our policies across the board. He is confronting what he has identified as the most immediate and extreme threat to global security -- the possibility that terrorists will obtain and use a nuclear weapon. That is why he has taken a number of critical steps, leading the effort for a stronger global nonproliferation regime, launching an international effort to secure the world's vulnerable nuclear material in four years and hosting a global nuclear summit next year.
The risk of just one terrorist with just one nuclear weapon is a risk we simply cannot afford to take. To ensure our military has the new capabilities and technology it needs for this fight, he accelerated the increase in the size of the Army and the Marines, has approved another increase in the size of the Army, is expanding our Special Forces and is increasing the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets our troops need in Afghanistan.
To ensure we have timely and accurate intelligence that prevents terrorist attacks and saves lives, we are continuing to adapt and strengthen the intelligence community by expanding human intelligence, strengthening operations, enhancing the workforce with improved linguistic and cultural skills, filling intelligence gaps, improving collaboration across the intelligence community and promoting greater coordination with foreign intelligence partners.