FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Obama reaps whirlwind in the Middle East*

For years, American policy in the Middle East has pursued two contradictory objectives: maintaining in power authoritarian pro-American governments to counter Islamist extremism, and espousing the rhetoric of democracy.Barack Obama reinforced this in June 2009 in his famous Cairo speech in which he sought a new relationship with the Islamic world. The US regarded the speech as of such importance that the White House had it translated into 14 languages.President Obama said, in part, “I’ve come he…

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