Obama who?
I was interested that the home page of the Iranian news agency has not a word about President Obama’s speech in Cairo. I think this is an interesting sign of success for Obama, because it suggests to me that he just flummoxes the anti-American element in the Middle East. Good for him. I also was ...
I was interested that the home page of the Iranian news agency has not a word about President Obama’s speech in Cairo. I think this is an interesting sign of success for Obama, because it suggests to me that he just flummoxes the anti-American element in the Middle East. Good for him.
I also was impressed by Jeffrey Goldberg’s take on the speech:
“An African-American President with Muslim roots stands before the Muslim world and defends the right of Jews to a nation of their own in their ancestral homeland, and then denounces in vociferous terms the evil of Holocaust denial, and right-wing Israelis go forth and complain that the President is unsympathetic to the housing needs of settlers. Incredible, just incredible.”
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Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1
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