NYT Ponders: What Islamic Capital Would Obama use to Make "Major" Foreign Policy Speech....

Their best guess, Cairo. And why not? A prominent cleric there recently called on Obama to convert to Islam, he could kill two birds with one stone....

WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama’s aides say he is considering making a major foreign policy speech from an Islamic capital during his first 100 days in office.

So where should he do it? The list of Islamic world capitals is long, and includes the obvious —Riyadh, Kuwait City, Islamabad — and the not-so-obvious — Male (the Maldives), Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), Tashkent (Uzbekistan). Some wise-guys have even suggested Dearborn, Mich., as a possibility.

Clearly it would be cheating for Mr. Obama to fly to Detroit, talk to Dearborn’s 30,000 Arab residents and call it a day. And Male and Ouagadougou, while certainly majority Muslim, can’t really be what Mr. Obama’s aides have in mind when they talk about locales for a high-profile speech that would seek to mend rifts between the United States and the broader Muslim world.

So Burkina Faso and the Maldives are out. But that leaves a whole swath of Islamic capitals, all ready to be spruced up for Mr. Obama to make his speech. I’ve thought hard about this, and asked a few people — diplomats even — which capital Mr. Obama should pick.

The consensus, after an entire day of reporting, is Cairo.

......I called the Egyptian Embassy in Washington to ask officials there what they thought. Someone from Mr. Obama’s team had already mentioned the possibility, although embassy officials said Egypt has not been approached about a possible presidential trip to Cairo.

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Comments

[Poopyhead]

Why not Tehran? He said he'd like to chat with Iran. Besides, after he recites the shehada there it might generate another wave of worldwide ecstasy.

Nobody around tonight !!!...only for fun,pass the time....

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[JDAM]

Waziristan

[GW]

His Secret Service detail must be going apeshit. Of course, such a move by HObama will be immediately seen as weakness by Muslims. What bullshit.

[Baraka]

How about minneostastan