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: Dispatches from the Culture WarsOpen Thread: Obama's Cairo Speech
By Ed Brayton
I didn't get to hear the speech live, but I did receive a transcript of it and see the video after I got home last night. And I know I've been a real critic of Obama's for the last few months on many things. But that speech struck me as nearly perfect. He made a powerful argument for Enlightenment values.
The speech was historically informed, cast in an idiom that Muslims around the world can understand and called not only on Americans to recognize that Islam is more than extremism and violence, but on Muslims to recognize that America is more than an invading superpower.
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