"Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind? Will you join in that historic effort?"
This quote represents the fallacy "begging the question." This is because he is saying that if we join in that historic effort, it will automatically lead to a more fruitful life for all mankind. He assumes that one thing (us joining him) will result in something else (a more fruitful life), when the assumption might not be correct. Do we know that joining him will result in this, for sure?
Though this speech contains numerous fallacies, it still remains famous and convincing. When people heard this speech, they weren't thinking about logical flaws that it might contain. In fact, those logical flaws might be exactly what convinced them. Fallacies can be very convincing, and people don't tend to look deep into the meaning of what is wrong or right, but rather what sounds wrong or right.
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