'We're not quite yet to where we need to be'

The president of the United States, speaking at a fund-raiser (what else?) earlier this week:

"And yet, despite all this, people are anxious.  Now, some of that has to do with some big challenges overseas.  I am very proud that we have ended one war, and by the end of this year we will have ended both wars that I inherited before I came into office.  (Applause.)  But whether people see what’s happening in Ukraine, and Russia’s aggression towards its neighbors in the manner in which it’s financing and arming separatists; to what’s happened in Syria -- the devastation that Assad has wrought on his own people; to the failure in Iraq for Sunni and Shia and Kurd to compromise --although we’re trying to see if we can put together a government that actually can function; to ongoing terrorist threats; to what’s happening in Israel and Gaza -- part of people’s concern is just the sense that around the world the old order isn’t holding and we’re not quite yet to where we need to be in terms of a new order that’s based on a different set of principles, that’s based on a sense of common humanity, that’s based on economies that work for all people."