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Obama: US Must Listen Not Dictate To Middle-east
Riehl World View —
Peace, love and understanding. Yes, what is it Iran really means when it threatens to wipe Israel off the map? Hmm? The only thing I can think of that we have dictated to them is that some factions must renounce violence. How mean of us!
The first video segment below seemed to loop about 4 minutes in. When it does, fast forward to 7 minutes in and it picks up, again. Apparently Obama still plans to deliver an address from a Muslim capitol within his first 100 days.
Obama: And so what I told him (Mitchell) is start by listening, because all too often the United States starts by dictating -- in the past on some of these issues -- and we don't always ...
Obama on the Middle East
Informed Comment —
The transcript of President Obama's interview on al-Arabiya Television (Dubai)is at the latter's site and I will mirror it here, below. Just a few quick observations. Obama emphasized respect for the Muslim world, affirmed that the United States is not its enemy, and that, on the contrary, Washington has a stake in the well-being and prosperity of the Muslim world. He underlined that he has Muslim relatives and had lived in the largest Muslim country, Indonesia, as a child. So he established some strong connections. He also implicitly condemned the rhetoric of "Islamic fascism" used by the Bush administration and Republican politicians more generally ...
