Read this passage: Aaron took the long way, by the basketball court, on his way to the grocery store. The usual people from the neighborhood were there playing ball. Part of him wanted to simply forget what they'd said yesterday and join the next game. He realized he was wanted, needed even, for his basketball skills and as their friend. However, their words still rang harshly in his ears. Seeing them play, he realized he needed more time. He still had feelings to sort out, and besides that, he still needed those groceries.

Why does Aaron walk by the basketball court?

Going by the court helps him decide if he is ready to rejoin his friends.
Going by the court helps him decide if he is ready to rejoin his friends.

He intends to ask his friends to apologize for their behavior the other day.
He intends to ask his friends to apologize for their behavior the other day.

He doesn't want to go by the court, but it is the only way to get to the grocery store.

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.

comfort   in their suffering