Obama’s ‘New Beginning’ in the Arab world filled with false starts
A freshly-inaugurated President Barack Obama made hefty promises to the Arab World that seem unobtainable in his second term. Months into his first term, the U.S. president vowed, from a podium at Cairo University in Egypt, “a new beginning” with the Arab, Muslim world, saying that he will work to relieve tensions that had been building.
But nearly five years later, the Arab and Muslim world is seemingly embroiled in chaos and crisis—and President Obama’s foreign policy seems to be falling short.
There's an understatement.