About President Obama Speach In Cairo:

“1. Aside from a few platitudes, it is disappointingly weak on human rights
and specifically women’s rights.

2. It betrays a naiveté, perhaps feigned, about how the Arab world works.”

Now here is where you all should get very, very mad. I have lived outside the US and during this time I worked as an advisor to a Prince, Brother to a Sultan of a Muslim Faith Country. I have no political views, only issues with the two parties. All of you that wrote before are being played by the US Political system. They are creating an argument to distract you so that you miss the real BS their pulling on you, me, us…

Here is it:

“… his oration means virtually nothing. Repression and suppression will go on uninterrupted. And to those whose abiding hatred of Israel (and thus America) is absolute, Obama’s words will be seen as empty and hypocritical.”

You see what should piss you off is that inside the Democratic Party, and Conversely the Republican Party, they know the right’s from wrongs… The reasons Bush went and the reasons why this issues, that issues and all the issues What the Republicans have stood by throughout the Iraq ordeal is the sentence stated above by the Muslim former advisor to Hillary Clinton…

None of this crap of talking two sides together… Sadly, about the whole Gitmo ordeal, and one of the reasons I didn’t head into the Military branch, is because we valued “Information at any cost” over conducting a war. Each of the Gitmo detainees I’m sure Bush knew he’s get hell for it but in Context of the day, I would have stuffed them all in a ditch in-Country and they’s have everyone tied up into some other argument/debate.

Do you all understand that we just printed 1 Trillion dollars? The racists Obama is printing money Ladies and Gentlemen… We are being sent into a death spiral and you’re arguing over if the band should play… The only way out of the death spiral is World War or Civil War… Or unless you can think of 5 more things in the near future that would rival the whole of revenue generated by the silicon chip

This speech is not only rethoric, it is diplomacy. Diplomacy is a domain where this kind of warning is already a great act. The role of the United States is not to rule the world therefore it would have been a really unwise thing to do anything more than he has already done in this last 4 month. And we he says “America will align our policies with those who pursue peace”, he use what is called the influence of his country.

My only concern is that the speech is just a bit too religious to my taste. But as he was first telling this to Muslims and Israelis, not to me. I have to agree that seems the best way to be heard.

PS : I would say I am also sadly used to hear only rethoric in the mouth of politicians, especially in the mouth of my country’s president Mr Sarkozy. But I really think this speech is much more. That is one of the first time I have hope while hearing some politician’s speech, and still more hope since it is from the world most powerful country’s president.

Thank you.

Those who run the U.S. and the world, the multi-national Corporations (General Electric, Dow Chemical, Exxon, Microsoft, Intel, Apple, etc.), which use the World Bank and the IMF to control nations, profit from war, conflict and fear, therefore, these will continue.

Expect no change.

This latest blog concerns a slice of life out of US/Cairo history books – from an historian – a scholar who knows that/this history well and has some significant concerns.

http://aboutaafia.blogspot.com/2009/06/cairo-matters.html

Here’s the latest blog:

He (Obama) illustrated the presence of Islam in the history of his country by mentioning that Morocco was the first to recognize the United States . It’s true, but more than a hundred year later the United States consented to the enslavement of this friend by European powers while “the oldest treaty of friendship” was still in tact. “The falcon of Morocco was trapped in the net of deception,” Iqbal commented (you can read the whole story in the second volume of my biography of Iqbal).I am reminded of `Black Saturday’. On Friday, 25 January 1952 , British troops patrolling the Suez killed 46 Egyptian policemen. Riots broke out in Cairo the very next day, rendezvous of European elite were burnt down and 17 British people got killed.

Cambridge scholar A. J. Arberry (1905-69) could be just one of many who reacted. In the preface of his next book he lamented the burning of Cairo (but not the death of 46 native policemen) and suggested that the influence of Iqbal and Pakistan must be contained if Western superiority is to be maintained over the East. He suggested that Pakistani and Muslim intellectuals themselves could be enlisted for the task. He was right. Pakistani academia turned out to be so hungry for recognition that they swooned upon reading that preface: a Western scholar had mentioned their country and their national poet!

Unanimously, the academia in Pakistan declared Arberry to be “Iqbal’s disciple” and invited him periodically to deliver lectures about Iqbal, Quran and Muslim civilization.
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Go to the site to read and add your own comments & find mine there as well:
http://aboutaafia.blogspot.com/2009/06/cairo-matters.html

Let me add that Pakistani Scholars, leaders, lawyers and more have learned their lesson.

Let’s also do all we can to make sure that the US and Cairo never again cooperate in the torture of prisoners detained and carried by US secret planes to Morocco among many other sites.