Barack Obama Sends Mixed Messages With Mideast Policy

by Charles Dunne

President Barack Obama has laid out a bold approach to the Arab Spring. In his speech to the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday, he strongly supported "freedom and self-determination" for all. And in a landmark address last year he went even further than George Bush and his "Freedom Agenda," avowing a United States policy that will "promote reform across the region and…support transitions to democracy."

But while these ideas are stirring in rhetorical sweep, the results have been mixed in practice.

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