It’s official: US President Barack Obama will deliver his much anticipated speech on relations with the Muslim world in Egypt on June 4. The Egyptian blogosphere is divided over the significance of the selection and its impact on the country’s patchy human rights record, but at least one blogger seems to be ecstatic about it. [...]
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Obama to deliver Muslim relations speech in Egypt
Lugar: A Game Changer?
“IN MY JUDGMENT, our course in Iraq has lost contact with our national security interests in the Middle East and beyond. Our continuing absorption with military activities in Iraq is limiting our diplomatic assertiveness there and elsewhere in the world. The prospects that the ’surge’ strategy will succeed as originally envisioned by the president are [...]
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I just finished watching another Wolf Blitzer CNN interview with Mark Regev, the spokesman for the Israeli foreign embassy. Wolf Blitzer grilled him a bit about reported bombing of civilian targets by Israel in Lebanon, and once again, Regev handled himself very well. He appears to be a master of the “block and bridge,” returning [...]
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