Today, speaking to a group of Washington reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel declared that Obama's speech in Cairo "will go down as one of the most significant foreign policy speeches."
"It was equal to what Kennedy's speech was, what Reagan's speech was," he said. "I think he did 20 years worth of work...for advancing America's interests...We are no longer the issue in that region of the world."
He went on to cite several recent Middle Eastern political events as evidence that Obama's approach was bearing fruit. He mentioned elections in Lebanon that gave the Western-backed March 14 coalition a majority of seats in the parliament there. He cited a February vote in Iraq (Obama was apparently able to affect that with the mere mulling of a speech to the "Muslim world."), which rewarded Maliki's crackdowns on militias and rejected Iran-aligned religious candidates. He cited Kuwaiti elections that gave seats to women while taking seats from Islamists.
Then, onto Iran:
"Or, you look at Iran: the moderate voices of reform that are willing to accept some kind of engagement in modernity are winning, and the extremists are back on their heels," Emanuel said. "It's not just one speech, but it's a series of policies."
Of course, this was ridiculous.
The truth is that Obama supported genocide in Iraq rather than holding US troops there to keep the peace and build a democracy.
His stand on Iran has been even worse.
There's a saying in German. "Ich kann gar nicht so viel fressen wie ich kotzen könnte". It translates as: I can't eat as much as I would want to vomit.
Its use... should be rather obvious.
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