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Wednesday, June 1, 2011

The Sweep: Obama's do-over on the Middle East - CNN.com

The Sweep: Obama's do-over on the Middle East - CNN.com: "It will be tempting for Obama to be upbeat about how the United States fits into the transformation. The death of Osama bin Laden two weeks ago at the hands of U.S. Navy SEALs presents an attractive background for him to argue that it was not bin Laden's ideology of extremism but the yearnings for democracy and freedom espoused by the U.S. that drove thousands of youth to take to the streets.
In fact, the change sweeping the Middle East was borne not out of U.S. encouragement, but from their taking matters into their own hands.
The U.S. response has been criticized as being largely sticking a finger in the air to see which way the democratic winds of change were blowing before scrambling to support the winner."

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