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To: Road Walker who wrote (485886)	6/5/2009 1:48:39 PM
From: tejek	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1577207

Obama didn’t describe how a democratic Iraq could influence the region. He seems to have largely given up on democracy promotion in Egypt. Larry Diamond of Stanford liked the Cairo speech but pointed out that Obama delivered it in a country where an aging dictator is passing power to his son, where the country is crumbling to dust because of autocracy and stagnation. The administration seems to accept this. Meanwhile, as The Washington Post noted, it’s slashing aid to Egypt’s democratic activists. This speech builds an idealistic facade on a realist structure. And this gets to the core Obama foreign-policy perplexity. The president wants to be an inspiring leader who rallies the masses. He also wants be a top-down realist who cuts deals in the palaces. There is a tension between these two impulses that even a sharp Chicago pol is having trouble managing. What Brooks is missing is that Obama symbolizes democracy more than any other president ever has. He was elected in a majority white country. That stands out like a sore thumb. And the Egyptians get it....esp. the young ones and that encourages them in their own democratic struggles. That's why they yelled out several times during his speech......."we love you". And at the end, they began to chant.....Obama, Obama, Obama......... Obama no longer belongs just to this country.........he is a symbol of hope for the world.....just as he is a citizen of the world.