12 June, 2009 – MRZine – Monthly Review
Barack Obama’s Cairo speech heralds a shift from the Islamophobic rhetoric of the Bush regime, but not from the long-term aims of the U.S. empire.
Predictably, Barak Obama’s speech in Cairo came under hysterical criticism from the right. Sean Hannity screamed that Obama gave ‘sympathizers of 9/11’ a voice on the world stage, Charles Krauthammer derided the apologetic tone, and Sen. James Inhofe called it ‘un-American.’ At the same time, Bill O’Reilly called the speech a ‘big success,’ and David Horowitz wrote that conservatives should support Obama on this.
What explains this strange schizophrenia among conservatives?
“According to witnesses, UN troops on the scene began shooting indiscriminately at the crowd killing a young man identified only as ‘Junior’ from the neighborhood of Solino,” reports Kevin Pina for The Dominion. – Photo: © 2009 Haiti Information Project
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