US cannot fix it all: Obama

New York, Sept. 23: Seizing a chance to challenge the world, the US President, Mr Barack Obama, said the global community is failing its people and that is not “solely America’s endeavour”.
“Those who used to chastise America for acting alone in the world cannot now stand by and wait for America alone to solve the world’s problems,” Mr Obama said in a passage of the speech he was delivering on Wednesday to the United Nations General Assembly.
The White House released excerpts in advance that reportedly carried a blunt tone.
It comes in Mr Obama’s first speech to this world body, a forum like none other for a leader hoping to wash away any lasting images of US unilateralism under Mr George W. Bush.
In essence, Mr Obama’s message was that he expects plenty in return for reaching out. “We have sought in word and deed a new era of engagement with the world,” Mr Obama said, echoing the cooperative theme he promised and has since used as a pillar of his foreign policy. “Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility,” he added.
Mr Obama foreshadowed his message to world leaders in a speech on Tuesday to the Clinton Global Initiative. saying that nations connected by problems, whether a flu strain or an economic collapse that crosses borders.