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...pointed at Japan, North Korea's missiles will one day target the United States and China. The missiles of Pakistan fallen into the hands of fundamentalists will threaten first India, then Europe. Those of Hezbollah - in other words, Iran - that now target Israel will one day be pointed at Cairo, Riyadh, Algiers, Tunis, Casablanca, Istanbul, then at Rome, Madrid, London and Paris. Should the battle lines harden and the country be threatened with annihilation, China's missiles could one day target Japan and the United States...
...Tokyo University, like so many Japanese leaders, Yosano has some qualities that make him stand apart. As the grandson of well-known modern Romantic poets, he is virtually literary nobility. While his father was on assignment as a diplomat, the young Yosano received some of his schooling in Cairo, where he remembers being asked: what is it like to be a citizen of a defeated country? The sting of that question became the seed of his political career. After graduating with a law degree, Yosano worked five years for the Japan Atomic Power Co. before taking a job as secretary...
...Cairo, Egypt Since Mecca and Medina are out of the question - non-Muslims are not allowed there, and in any case, the Saudis frown on political speeches in holy places - the most symbolically resonant Arab city is Egypt's capital. "Let's face it: the people Obama really wants to reach are the Arabs," says the Arab diplomat, who is not Egyptian. "And there's no better place to do that than Cairo...
Home to the Al Azhar mosque and university, the great centers of Islamic scholarship, Cairo has long influenced the thinking of Muslims everywhere. It is also, in many ways, the birthplace of radical Islam and of the precepts that underpin terrorist groups like al-Qaeda. (Read TIME's Middle East blog...
...among Muslims (his own people included) is pretty low: he's seen by many as an American puppet who is no fan of democracy. Besides, anti-U.S. sentiment is very high among Egyptians. "I would not want to be the person in charge of security for [Obama] in Cairo," the diplomat says, shaking his head...