Tomorrow, President Obama will be giving a major address on the situation in the Middle East, and outlining his administrations broad strategy for the region. This will be the first time the president will be addressing what his strategy is for the Middle East, this coming at a time of intense upheaval with the "Arab Spring" revolution throughout the Middle East, and with his failed attempt to settle the Israeli-Palestinian issue. Much has changed in the Middle East since the president spoke in Cairo in 2009, since then the president has lost his Middle East envoy, who resigned last week. The Arab Spring revolution caught the administration off guard and gave inconsistent and confusing answers as to what the U.S. strategy was in the region.
Military operations in Libya have been hampered by a disorganized and contradictory U.S. policy on what precisely are the goals of the U.S., this coupled with the president's haphazard and naive strategy with regard to the situation in Syria.
It will be interesting to see if the president addresses what the specific strategy of the U.S. will be for the region, address how to reinvigorate the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process, or if we will again get more fluff then substance from this administration.
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