Leftover Policies Pose a Challenge to Obama's Cairo Message

Delivering on the changes he promised means addressing outrageous policies still in existence

absent from Obama's comments was the promise to address existing policies of exceptionalism and hostility that continue to rot American foreign policy from the inside out. Without a recognition and serious reconsideration of these practices, the current administration has little chance of making tangible the changes it spent much of the last year promising. Full Story »

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by Jack Dinkmeyer - Jun. 8, 2009

The Mid-East has suffered over a century of the West's "now we mean it, now we don't" colonalism, usually having to do with oil. A surprise in Obama's speech was acknowledging the CIA's 1953 role destroying Iran's democracy--again, for oil. But the speech hasn't changed the Mid-East's attitude: either put up or shut up.

Obama's reign is beginning to look like an example that while Americans vote, it's special interests who govern.

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