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 Obama Readies Another Appeal to Muslim WorldPosted on May 11, 2011
In the wake of Osama bin Laden’s death, President Obama will address the Muslim world to herald the democratic movements that have swept the Middle East and North Africa in recent months and warn against religious extremism. Obama may deliver the speech next week from Washington, setting it apart from the widely lauded performance he gave at Cairo University in 2009 (with the hospitality of then-President Hosni Mubarak). Because the president is meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu May 20, there is speculation that Obama will also discuss Israel’s relationship with Palestine. It’s going to be difficult for him to deliver a speech that Muslims or even non-Muslims can swallow. The U.S. has displayed a wildly inconsistent approach to uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria and elsewhere and Obama’s popularity had been in the cellar before the bin Laden raid. He is still commanding military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan as he appeals for peace. Whereas in Cairo he focused on healing the rift between the U.S. and Islam, his next speech will need to start healing America’s fractured foreign policy. —KDG
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By jomo, May 12, 2011 at 12:43 pm Link to this comment
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In order to underline the equanimity of our Democratic Nation Obama will demand that the three former wives of Bin Laden (now widowed in triplicate) be taken into custody by the S.E.A.L.S. from the Pakistan “Safe House” where they are currently being detained. It is an urgent matter of National Security that the CIA be allowed to interrogate these women. The Pakistan authorities have been assured by the U.S. Secretary of State that water-boarding will not be used as a method of extracting information from these three widows. In fact they will have separate accomodations at GUANTANAMO, far removed from the male terrorist suspects.
Report thisBy jomo, May 12, 2011 at 12:40 pm Link to this comment
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In order to underline the equanimity of our Democratic Nation Obama will demand that the three former wives of Bin Laden (now widowed in triplicate) be taken into custody by the S.E.A.L.S. from the Pakistan “Safe House” where they are currently being detained. It is an urgent matter of National Security that the CIA be allowed to interrogate these women. The Pakistan authorities have been assured by the U.S. Secretary of State that water-boarding will not be used as a method of extracting information from these three widows. In fact they will have separate accomodations at Quantanamo, far removed from the male terrorist suspects.
Report thisBy empilou, May 11, 2011 at 3:10 pm Link to this comment
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@Robespierre115
You are too funny, NOT!!
Report thisBy gerard, May 11, 2011 at 2:51 pm Link to this comment
Rushing in where angels fear to tread?
Report this1. Renounce all war and pull troops out of the Middleast. Cut number of bases and put resources into peace-making initiatives. Suggest ways in which military-industrial complex can be turned into peacetime production and employment.
2. Promise to work with all “nuclear” nations to get rid of nuclear weapons and stop the growth of nuclear power.
3. Declare leadership in a “green revolution” to include development of wind, solar and geo-thermal.
4. Announce action to stop exploitation being done by rich countries and rich corporations. Announce end of big-Ag interference with small farmers worldwide, including “doctored” seeds and pesticides.
5. Declare end of the so-called “American Century” and all neo-con manifestations of unfair trade and banking practices.
6. Appeal to the world to turn the page on the violent past and move into a cooperative future.
By DavidByron, May 11, 2011 at 2:49 pm Link to this comment
We just murdered the other side of the debate so that means we won the debate, right? Right?
Report this“The killing of bin Laden in a U.S. raid on his Pakistan compound will give Obama a chance to make the case for Arabs to reject al-Qaida’s Islamist militancy and embrace democratic change”
By Robespierre115, May 11, 2011 at 2:32 pm Link to this comment
So in other words, get ready for another Orwellian speech where Obama will use pretty rhetoric to cover up reality. I don’t think the people of Bahrain will take him very seriously, the same way Palestinians didn’t gain at all from his 2009 Cairo speech (before which he refused to criticize Mubarak). In Latin America the people of Honduras and Colombia have learned the hard way not to fall for Obama’s corporate slogans.
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