Commentary on the President's Speech in Cairo, Egypt

[12ut5]

Strange that no one commented, here, on the inaccuracies in the speech, the pandering at the cost of historical truth and honesty, something the speech was supposed to be about. Perhaps these commentaters are as ahistorical and ignorant as President Obama seems to be, ie. about Islam.

[Cocalighto]

Couldn't agree more. The speech was full of high-flown rethorics as usual but it was also filled with inaccuracies. Apart from the lame content, the whole attitude was wrong. Now Obama is regarded as a "usefull idiot", a puppet that can be used just the way dictators want it to. Look at how Iranian leaders spit at his reached out hand. Look at how Obama condemns a completely constitutional coup in Honduras, while he doesn't even dare to defend the Iranian people who risk their lives for freedom.

[abbasirahim]

Why do we have to "go into" countries like they are children who need to be corrected? Can't we just stop fostering extremism for our own goals and inflaming hatred by supporting dictators and invading countries?

[lovejangie1]

Great video!

[voyeurdug]

Well done, though not in just so many words, but all through the speech, Obama put the Middle East on notice that we weren't going to be held eternally answerable for the wrongs of generations and generations past. Those were our grandfathers and great-grandfathers and great-great-grandfathers, and that was WAAAY back when.

This is us. This is now.

[tylertyler82]

I don't get it? Why don't we go into Saudi Arabia? Weren't 90% of the hi jackers from there? Oh, that's right, they have oil that we need, so we roll over and let them screw us with no condom.

[suchAnoob]

calm down dude, you can get your point across without sounding bitter..but yeah i agree that america is in a way held hostage by its reliance on saudi's oil...

[cosmosgato]

Yeah but I can understand being upset. The money lives and time lost is staggerring

[lzh89]

problems wouldn't be solved by simply going into Saudi anyway. it is the people of Saudi who should band together to cast out and make unwelcome the presence of the terrorists among themselves. Ideally. But we all know ideals are never acheived... =(