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I'm stirred by the speech because I think its ultimate impact will be on Palestine. In fact, I think Obama is conscious of its Palestinian application. Again and again he made statements tonight-- massacre, atrocities, freedom of speech, universal rights, "the writ" of the U.N. Security Council, 40+ years of tyranny, the rights of refugees, the support of the Arab League, America's "unique ability" to have an effect-- that apply to the Palestinian experience.
http://www.zcommunications.org/cairo-2-by-philip-weiss
Cairo 2
President Obama's most critical statement tonight was that letting Qaddafi win would have imperilled the nascent democracies in Tunisia and Egypt. "The democratic impulses that are dawning across the region would be eclipsed by the darkest form of dictatorship, as repressive leaders concluded that violence is the best strategy to cling to power."
