Obama in Cairo: Where Are the Arab Views?

Obama in Cairo: Where Are the Arab Views?

Obama in Cairo: Where Are the Arab Views?

Nation contributor Laura Flanders debates the merits of President Obama’s speech directed at the Muslim world.

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George W. Bush’s former special assistant, Ron Christie, and Politico’s Jonathan Martin team up on the defensive while GRITtv host Flanders queries which resonates louder in the Muslim World: Obama’s speech in Cairo or continued silence on the Israeli government’s blockade and bombing of Gaza, and the suicide of another hunger striker in Guantanamo? Also where are the Muslims in all this discussion of the President’s speech to the Muslim World?

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