Good Try the Issue: Obama Speech Was Well Received. Our View: He Couldn't Please Everyone.

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President Obama's positive and conciliatory speech last week was well received by his audience at Cairo University and across the Muslim world generally, and, as much as a single speech can, it may indeed signal, as he said, a new beginning between the United States and Muslims based on mutual interest and respect.

The speech was the subject of intense interest in the Muslim world, and especially among Arab nations, where it was extensively broadcast live. Even radical Hezbollah TV in Lebanon carried it. In Iran, however, it was jammed.

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Good Try the Issue: Obama Speech Was Well Received. Our View: He Couldn't Please Everyone.

Obama opened with a greeting in Arabic and quoted frequently from the Quran. Certainly he gets an A ...

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