The Cairo Speech: Classic Obama   As we wrote earlier, President
Obama "called for an alliance and a new beginning between
America and the Muslim world" in his highly anticipated speech
in Cairo this morning. The 55-minute address covered a broad
range of topics, from Israel-Palestine, Iraq, and Iran to
women's rights, democracy, and religious freedom. Those are
topics fraught with potential controversy, and what pleased
Obama's audience in the Muslim world is upsetting some in
America. Meanwhile, others saw this speech as the Obama we all
have come to expect: nuanced, even-handed, and tolerant.  • Matt
Yglesias says that Obama and his team are "not afraid to try to
express complicated or difficult ideas" and are willing "to try
to really explain the complicated and difficult ideas rather
than sweep them under the rug." [Think Progress]  • Hugh
Hewitt's two major objections to the speech are that the ideas
it laid out were not "a huge break with the Bush
Administration's policies with regard to Islam," and th