{"id":4416,"date":"2011-07-14T14:02:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T19:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=4416"},"modified":"2011-07-14T14:02:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T19:02:40","slug":"smart-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=4416","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Smart&quot; Diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All that goodwill that George W. Bush squandered, especially in the Muslim world, was going to be returned under Obama. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/nilegardiner\/100096840\/bush-trumps-barack-in-the-arab-world-president-obama-is-proving-an-embarrassing-flop-in-the-middle-east\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yeah, right.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Today\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/aai.3cdn.net\/5d2b8344e3b3b7ef19_xkm6ba4r9.pdf\">eye-opening IBOPE Zogby International poll <\/a>for the Arab American Institute Foundation should be a wake-up call to the White House on its failing foreign policy. After two and a half years of bashing Israel, appeasing rogue regimes such as Iran and Syria, and promising a new era of relations with the Muslim world, Washington is now less popular in major Arab countries than it was when George W. Bush was in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The poll <a href=\"http:\/\/aai.3cdn.net\/5d2b8344e3b3b7ef19_xkm6ba4r9.pdf\">surveys Arab opinion in six countries<\/a>: Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, and reveals that \u201cArabs see the Obama Administration\u2019s handling of most Middle East policy issues as having made no contribution to improving US-Arab relations. Only on the issue of the \u201cno-fly zone over Libya\u201d do a majority of Saudis and plurality of Lebanese see a positive contribution.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font style=\"background-color: #f8f7ef\">I don&#8217;t think Obama ever said <em>how<\/em> it was going to be different; he merely declared it would be so. Well, it&#8217;s different, just not in the way those who voted for him expected.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font style=\"background-color: #f8f7ef\">Change!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All that goodwill that George W. Bush squandered, especially in the Muslim world, was going to be returned under Obama. Yeah, right. Today\u2019s eye-opening IBOPE Zogby International poll for the Arab American Institute Foundation should be a wake-up call to the White House on its failing foreign policy. After two and a half years of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,321,18,52,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-foreign-policy","category-government","category-middle-east","category-polls"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}