In a much-anticipated speech in Washington May 19, the president insisted that US policy in the Middle East will be designed to support -- rather than thwart -- the same popular yearnings for self-rule and prosperity that built America and produced what are now universal values. Gone is the tipping of the hat to Arab autocrats that has accompanied decades of American calls for expanded political freedoms and economic opportunities in the region. "After decades of accepting the world as it is in the region, we have a chance to pursue the world as it should be," Mr. Obama said....