At least Cairo is an 'ally' of some sort.
Looking for the Ideal Spot to Make a Speech WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama's aides say he is considering making a major foreign policy speech from an Islamic capital during his first 100 days in office.
So where should he do it? The list of Islamic world capitals is long, and includes the obvious --Riyadh, Kuwait City, Islamabad -- and the not-so-obvious -- Male (the Maldives), Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), Tashkent (Uzbekistan). Some wise-guys have even suggested Dearborn, Mich., as a possibility.
Clearly it would be cheating for Mr. Obama to fly to Detroit, talk to Dearborn's 30,000 Arab residents and call it a day. And Male and Ouagadougou, while certainly majority Muslim, can't really be what Mr. Obama's aides have in mind when they talk about locales for a high-profile speech that would seek to mend rifts between the United States and the broader Muslim world.
So Burkina Faso and the Maldives are out. But that leaves a whole swath of Islamic capitals, all ready to be spruced up for Mr. Obama to make his speech. I've thought hard about this, and asked a few people -- diplomats even -- which capital Mr. Obama should pick.
The consensus, after an entire day of reporting, is Cairo.
Unbelievably stupid.
There are no words which will 'mend rifts' with those who hate us for the reasons they do. This is a dangerously naive delusion.
I feel as if I am in some kind of alternate universe.
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If Obama has to extend an olive branch and have his hand bitten off to understand who he is dealing with, the sooner the better in my opinion.
Unfortunately, I fear that it will take another dramatic attack on U.S. soil to wake up the American public and our own press.
And msm will harp on and on as to how unprecedented such a speech is. Yada, yada, yada.
Imagine if FDR has done such a thing in a Nazi nation as a placating gesture and to state a new foreign policy.
BHO will embolden the terrorists even more. Hell, maybe he'll even recite the shahada. As surreal as the world has become, I wouldn't be surprised.
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