Earlier this month, state workers performed mass physical exercise and were encouraged to climb an 8km (five mile) concrete staircase built into a hillside outside Ashgabat.
These actions are the result of the effort led by Vice President Joe Biden and members of the Cabinet to come up with concrete steps that we can take right now to keep our children safe, help prevent mass shootings, and reduce the broader epidemic of gun violence in this country.
By combining these concrete interests with American value-based interests (enlarging democracy, feeding the starving multitudes, ending mass murders, rapes and forced migrations) the Clinton administration is beginning to establish a strategy for the next century.