Obama Set For Outreach To Skeptical Arab World Reuters reports: “President Barack Obama will lay out a new U.S. strategy toward a skeptical Arab world on Thursday, offering fresh aid to promote democratic change as he seeks to shape the outcome of popular uprisings threatening both friends and foes. In his much-anticipated ‘Arab spring’ speech, Obama will try to reset relations with the Middle East, but his outreach could falter amid Arab frustration over an uneven U.S. response to the region’s revolts and his failure to advance Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking.”
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