Obama's Diplomatic Vandalism

By abandoning Mubarak, the U.S. President has sent a disturbing message to America's allies in the region.

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BY CON COUGHLIN

Barack Obama has achieved his ambition of making the Middle East the centerpiece of his foreign policy. The problem is that he has done so for all the wrong reasons.

In June 2009 the U.S. President took to the stage at Cairo University to revolutionize Washington's relationship with the Arab world. Except that in his now famous speech, Mr. Obama's primary intention in pleading for a "new beginning" was to revive the moribund peace process between Israelis and Palestinians.

Fueling popular uprisings of the sort now sweeping the far corners of the Arab world were not on his agenda. President ...

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