Middle East
Obama Needs His Mideast Groove Back
June 22, 2010 - 1:05 PM | by: Reena NinanOne year ago, President Barack Obama traveled to Cairo and gave a major foreign-policy speech–addressing worries in the Muslim world that the U.S. was neglecting their concerns. Arab analysts widely judged Obama’s efforts to have been successful, effectively hitting the reset button on U.S-Arab relations.
I was in Cairo for the speech and I remember the head of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo telling me before the speech: “If he fails to deliver anything, the Arab world will turn on him.”
A new study by the Pew Center suggests that the Islamist’s prediction is coming true.
In Egypt, America’s favorability rating has dropped from 27% in 2009 to 17% this year.
Turkey and Pakistan tied with Egypt as having the lowest opinion of the U.S and President Obama with 17%.
According to the Pew Research Center, “While views of Obama are still more positive than were attitudes toward President Bush among most Muslim publics, significant percentages continue to worry that the U.S. could become a military threat to their country.”



























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