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Louis Katz: This is War News Radio. Last week in Egypt, President Obama made good on a campaign promise to deliver a major address to the Muslim world. We now turn to Kyle Goeckner-Wald to see how that address was received in Iraq.
Kyle Goeckner-Wald: If the Obama administration has its way, June 4th, 2009 will be remembered as the beginning of a monumental reconciliation process. For it was then that the President delivered his address to the Muslim world. The speech, ambitiously entitled "A New Beginning," was delivered at Cairo University in Egypt. As the name suggests, the ultimate goal was to begin to heal the fissure between the Muslim world and America caused by decades of myopic policy and cultural misunderstandings. Many in the Muslim world feel that America's recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have only worsened that fissure. For those who watched President Obama's speech, it...
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