Obama's Message to Muslims Requires Sensitivity--and Tough Love
Middle East speech must call for cooperation, support for peace, and efforts on human rights
Posted June 2, 2009
Linda Killian is a professor of journalism and director of the Boston University Washington Center and a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
In his recent speech at the National Archives on national security, Obama said in attempting to keep the U.S. safe we must "enlist the power of our most fundamental values ... freedom, fairness, equality, and dignity ... time and again our values have been our best national security asset."
"We must never, ever turn our back on [the Constitution's] enduring principles for expedience sake," Obama said.
This is a most excellent principle to govern by, not only when talking about our own security issues, but when dealing with foreign governments as well.
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