(photo credit: Stephen Crowley, NYT)
The best response that could be made to the email I featured yesterday is President Obama's speech in Egypt about which I just read in The New York Times onine. Here is a quote. The speech left me amazed that finally an American President could stand before an Islamic audience and deliver such words. How many decades overdue is this speech?
[The Iraq war was a ]“war of choice that provoked strong differences in my country and around the world.”
“Although I believe that the Iraqi people are ultimately better off without the tyranny of Saddam Hussein, I also believe that events in Iraq have reminded America of the need to use diplomacy and build international consensus to resolve our problems whenever possible.”
This is a speech worth reading and remembering.
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