ei: Obama in Cairo: A Bush in sheep's clothing?: "Once you strip away the mujamalat -- the courtesies exchanged between guest and host -- the substance of President Obama's speech in Cairo indicates there is likely to be little real change in US policy. It is not necessary to divine Obama's intentions -- he may be utterly sincere and I believe he is. It is his analysis and prescriptions that in most regards maintain flawed American policies intact.
Though he pledged to 'speak the truth as best I can,' there was much the president left out. He spoke of tension between 'America and Islam' -- the former a concrete specific place, the latter a vague construct subsuming peoples, practices, histories and countries more varied than similar."
Though he pledged to 'speak the truth as best I can,' there was much the president left out. He spoke of tension between 'America and Islam' -- the former a concrete specific place, the latter a vague construct subsuming peoples, practices, histories and countries more varied than similar."
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